Discovery Reports 1929 - 1980

This dataset consists of the full text of volumes 1-37 of the Discovery reports, published between 1929 to 1980. Published in print by Cambridge University Press, these volumes contain scholarly articles and reports, from many hands, on the marine biology and oceanography of the Southern Ocean. They were the fruit of the Discovery Investigations, a series of ship- and shore-based investigations. The three ships associated with these voyages were the RRS Discovery, the RRS Discovery II, and the RRS William Scoresby. The Investigations were first funded by the British government in order to support the better management of commercial Atlantic whale fishing stock.These thirty-seven volumes are already available to read in the Southampton Digital Viewer at 'Discovery' reports