Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1902 — Enthusiasm of a Dying Scientist. [ARTICLE]

Enthusiasm of a Dying Scientist.

The first penguin we met, says Prof. C. E. Borchgrevink, the Antarctic explorer, In Leslie’s Monthly, arrived on the 14th of October, 1899, at Cape Adair, in South Victoria Land, thus long before the Ice had broken up. I killed him at the request of my zoologist, who was dying at the time. The man knew that his death was only a question of hours, but he had looked forward to the arrival of the birds, and the news of this first arrival excited him. He begged us to kill and dissect the bird before him, although he himself was to follow the bird into the mystery of death half an hour afterwards, and he knew it. He showed the utmost Interest In the operation, and dictated scientific notes ns he watched It till within fifteen minutes of Ills dissolution.