Supplementary material to "HMS Challenger and SMS Gazelle – their 19 th century voyages compared"

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In 1874, S.M.S. ,,Gazelle" was sent on a two-year voyage, firstly to carry the German expedition destined for the observation of the transit of Venus in December 1874 to the Kerguelen Islands and to take part in these observations, and secondly to promote oceanography and to conduct physical and oceanographic research in the maritime sciences.However, it was not at the time the intention to summarize and publish the results of the research in a special report; only later, a few years after the expedition, when the rich and valuable material collected on the voyage was assessed, did the need became clear to process it further and to compile it into a unified work.Therefore, after a memorandum had been submitted to the German Reichstag in 1880, the funds for the implementation of this plan were granted.Just as it would have been more advantageous for the preparation and the execution of the work if the intention to create such a thing had existed from the outset and if this had been taken into account when making and recording the observations, so now, after the collected material, came to the fore partly during the trip, partly directly, partly through the intermediation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, to individual scholars for further exploitation, there were not inconsiderable difficulties in bringing it back together and initiating a unified management.The preparatory work for the publication was carried out up to the beginning of 1886 under the personal direction of the former commander of S.M.S. ,,Gazelle", Kontre-Admiral Freiherrn* VON SCHLEINITZ.When he was snatched from this activity by his appointment as governor of Kaiser Wilhelms-Land [northeastern New Guinea] and the Bismarck Archipelago, the head of the Admiralty commissioned the Hydrographic Office with the publication of the work and under the same the Admiralty Council Captain Lieutenant a

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