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William Spiers Bruce
(1867-1921)
Polar explorer and oceanographer
Educated at the University of Edinburgh (where he was later the
George Heriot Research
Fellow 1900-1901, he became the Director of the Scottish Oceanographical
Laboratory.
He was an assistant in the Challenger Expedition Commission, and a naturalist
on the Scottish Antarctic Expedition 1892-93, the Jackson-Harmsworth
Polar Expedition 1896 & 1897, and a number of others, and led the
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1902-1904. He lectured
on geography at Heriot-Watt College (now Heriot-Watt University)1899-1901
and from 1917
until his death, and at the Church of Scotland Training College, Edinburgh.
He bequeathed to Edinburgh University Library ca 1,000 volumes, 2,000-3,000
pamphlets and offprints, files
and albums of illustrative matter, and ca 30 albums of new cuttings,
on Arctic and Antarctic
exploration.
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