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Two polar explorers: W. S. Bruce and G. Isachsen. In the background isProfessor Hergesell of Strasbourg who conducted many upper atmosphereexperiments with sounding balloons between 1904 and 1907. Bruce overwinteredin both the Arctic and Antarctic. He directed the British Scotia expedition. Plate IV, print 8. In: Results of the Scientific Campaigns ... Vol. 89. (Image credit: NOAA Rice Library of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)