The nicknames are as follows: 

        James Pigg Keohane
        Bones Crean
        Michael Clissold
        Snatcher Evans (P.O.)
        Jehu
        China
        Christopher Hooper
        Victor Bowers
        Snippets (windsucker)
        Nobby Lashly

Friday, June 2.—­The wind still high.  The drift ceased at an early hour yesterday; it is difficult to account for the fact.  At night the sky cleared; then and this morning we had a fair display of aurora streamers to the N. and a faint arch east.  Curiously enough the temperature still remains high, about +7 deg..

The meteorological conditions are very puzzling.

Saturday, June 3.—­The wind dropped last night, but at 4 A.M. suddenly sprang up from a dead calm to 30 miles an hour.  Almost instantaneously, certainly within the space of one minute, there was a temperature rise of nine degrees.  It is the most extraordinary and interesting example of a rise of temperature with a southerly wind that I can remember.  It is certainly difficult to account for unless we imagine that during the calm the surface layer of cold air is extremely thin and that there is a steep inverted gradient.  When the wind arose the sky overhead was clearer than I ever remember to have seen it, the constellations brilliant, and the Milky Way like a bright auroral streamer.

The wind has continued all day, making it unpleasant out of doors.  I went for a walk over the land; it was dark, the rock very black, very little snow lying; old footprints in the soft, sandy soil were filled with snow, showing quite white on a black ground.  Have been digging away at food statistics.

Simpson has just given us a discourse, in the ordinary lecture series, on his instruments.  Having already described these instruments, there is little to comment upon; he is excellently lucid in his explanations.

As an analogy to the attempt to make a scientific observation when the condition under consideration is affected by the means employed, he rather quaintly cited the impossibility of discovering the length of trousers by bending over to see!

The following are the instruments described: 

    Features

    The outside (bimetallic) thermograph.

    The inside thermograph (alcohol)
        Alcohol in spiral, small lead pipe—­float vessel.

    The electrically recording anemometer
        Cam device with contact on wheel; slowing arrangement,
        inertia of wheel.

    The Dynes anemometer
        Parabola on immersed float.

    The recording wind vane
        Metallic pen.

    The magnetometer
        Horizontal force measured in two directions—­vertical
        force in one—­timing arrangement.