Papers of Sir Charles Seymour Wright

Acquisition of the papers of Sir Charles Seymour Wright KCB OBE MC MA (1887-1975). He was born and died in Canada, but spent most of his working life in England, first at Cambridge and then from 1919 to 1947 with the Admiralty, where he was head of scientific research from 1934. As a young man be was a member of Captain R F Scott's last expedition and was one of the search party which discovered the bodies of Captain Scott and his colleagues after their tragic return from the South Pole. His papers contain much geomagnetic, meteorological and surveying material of primary importance in the exploration of the Antarctic during the 'heroic' phase.