British Polar Expedition, Fort Rae, Canada, N.W. Canada 1932-33

London: British National Committee for the Polar Year, The Royal Society, 1937.

Two volumes. Quarto. Publisher's gilt maroon buckram, gilt titles to spine. These volumes contain scientific data collected by the expedition in 1932 of interest to those examining climate change. Both volumes in fine condition, with a few faint splash marks on volume I and area of sunning to volume II. A near fine set. The six members of the Brrtish Polar Year Expedition to Fort Rae near the northern extremity of the Great Slave Lake in North Western
Canada set out to carry out a pre-arranged programme of observational work in the four main branches of geophysical investigation included under the headings of meteorology, terrestrial magnetism, aurora and atmospheric electricity,