The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean

Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60°S latitude and encircling Antarctica. It is usually regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions...

. They were funded by the British

United Kingdom

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 Colonial Office

Colonial Office

Colonial Office is the government agency which serves to oversee and supervise their colony* Colonial Office - The British Government department* Office of Insular Affairs - the American government agency* Reichskolonialamt - the German Colonial Office...

 and organised by the Discovery Committee

Discovery Committee

The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations and to propose nature resource conservation and economic development policies for the Falkland...

 in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide the scientific background to stock management of the commercial Antarctic whale fishery.
The work of the Investigations contributed hugely to our knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on, and the oceanography of their habitat. The investigations continued until 1951, with the final report being published in 1980.

Laboratory

Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in the marine laboratory, Discovery House, built in 1925 at King Edward Point

King Edward Point

King Edward Point is a promontory and settlement with port facilities on the northeastern coast of the island of South Georgia. It is located at in Cumberland East Bay...

 and occupied until 1931. The scientists lived and worked in the building, travelling half a mile or so across King Edward Cove

King Edward Cove

King Edward Cove is a sheltered cove immediately southwest of Mount Duse, in the west side of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. This cove, frequented by early sealers at South Georgia, was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. It was named in about 1906 for...

 to the whaling station at Grytviken

Grytviken

Grytviken is the principal settlement in the British territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. It was so named in 1902 by the Swedish surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site. It is the best harbour on the island, consisting of a...

 to work on whales as they were brought ashore by commercial whaling ships.

Ships

Vessels used were:

• RRS Discovery
  RRS Discovery
  The RRS Discovery was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain. Designed for Antarctic research, she was launched in 1901. Her first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, successful...
  
   from 1924–1931
• RRS William Scoresby
  RRS William Scoresby
  The RRS William Scoresby was an early-twentieth-century research vessel in the employ of the British scientific organisation, Discovery Investigations....
  
   from 1927 to ??
• RRS Discovery II from 1929 to ??

Reports

Results of the investigations were printed in the Discovery Reports. This was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

, and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. Many were printed as individual reports rather than in large volumes.

List of the Discovery Reports

Volume Pages/Plates/Charts	Title	Author	Published
Volume I
	List of Personnel
pp 1 – 140 Plates I - VI	Station List 1925 - 1927		January 1929
pp 143 – 232 Plates VII - XVIII	Objects, Equipment and Methods	S Kemp ScD A C Hardy MA N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc	July 1929
pp 235 – 255 Plates XIX - XXIV	The Natural History of the Elephant Seal with Notes on Other Seals Found at South Georgia	L Harrison Matthews MA	July 1929
pp 259 – 540 Plates XXV - XLIV	Southern Blue and Fin Whales	N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc J F G Wheeler MSc	December 1929
pp 543 – 560	Parasitic Nematoda and Acanthocephala Collected in 1925 - 1927	H A Bayliss MA DSc	December 1929
pp 563 – 592 Plates XLV - LVI	The Birds of South Georgia	L Harrison Matthews MA	December 1929
Volume II
pp 3 – 222	Polychaete Worms	C C A Monroe MA	October 1930
pp 225 – 260 Plate I	Thoracic Cirripedes Collected in 1925-1927	C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden	October 1930
pp 263 – 370 Plate II	Oceanic Fishes and Flatfishes Collected in 1925 - 1927	J R Norman	October 1930
pp 373 – 402 Plates III - IV	Cephalopoda, I. Octopoda	G C Robson MA	November 1930
pp 405 – 434 Plate V	The Age of Fin Whales at Physical Maturity with a Note on Multiple Ovulations	J F G Wheeler MSc	January 1931
pp 437 – 482 Plates VI - VII	The Anatomy of a Marine Ostracod Cypridina (Doloria) Levis Skogsberg	H Graham Cannon ScD	February 1931
Volume III
	List of Personnel January 1932
pp 3 – 132 Plates I - X	Station List 1927 - 1929		January 1931
pp 135 – 198 Plates XI - XXXI	The South Sandwich Islands (With a report on Rock Specimens by GW Tyrrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE)	S Kemp ScD FRS A L Nelson RNR	November 1931
pp 201 – 222 Plate XXXII	Nebaliacea	H Graham Cannon ScD	December 1931
pp 225 – 260 Plates XXXIII - XXXVIII	Cephalodiscus	C C John MA	December 1931
pp 263 – 268	Spiders Collected by the Discovery Expedition, with a Description of a New Species from South Georgia	W S Bristowe BA FZS	December 1931
pp 269 – 296 Plate XXXIX	Mollusca: Gasytropoda Thecosomata and Gymnosomata	Anne L Massey	March 1932
pp 299 – 344 Plates XL - XLIV Charts 1 - 4	Narrative of Hydrographic Survey Operations in South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands	Lt Cdr J M Chaplin RN	June 1932
Volume IV
pp 3 – 230 Plates I - IV	Station List 1929 - 1931		July 1932
pp 235 – 265	Oligochaeta. Part I. Microdrili (Mainly Enchytraeidae)	J Stephenson CIE MB DSc FRS	May 1932
pp 267 – 291	Oligochaeta. Part II. Earthworms	Grace E Pickford PhD, Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University	May 1932
pp 293 – 460v Plates VI - XVII	Foraminifera. Part I. The Ice-Free Area of the Falkland Islands and Adjacent Seas	Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen was an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam.-Life:...  FRS Arthur Earland FRMS	August 1932
Volume V
pp 3 – 326v Plate I	Amphipoda	K H Barnard Keppel Harcourt Barnard Keppel Harcourt Barnard , was a South African zoologist and museum director. He was the only son of Harcourt George Barnard M.A. , a solicitor from Lambeth, and Anne Elizabeth Porter of Royston....  DSc FLS	August 1932
pp 329 – 363	The Vascular Networks (Retia Mirabilia) of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)	F D Omanney ARCS BSc	September 1932
pp 365 – 466 Plates II - III	The Uro-Genital System of the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)	F D Omanney ARCS BSc	September 1932
pp 469 – 484 Plate IV	Lobster-krill: Anomuran Crustacea that are the Food of Whales	L Harrison Matthews MA	November 1932
Volume VI
PP 1 – 138	Pycnogonida	Isabella Gordon Isabella Gordon Isabella Gordon, D.Sc., O.B.E. was an English biological scientist. Gordon specialised in carcinology, the study of crustaceans, and published many papers and monographs on the Crustacea. She worked at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of Crustacea until her retirement in 1966. Gordon...  DSc PhD, Assistant keeper in the Department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History)	December 1932
PP 139 – 164 Plates I - VI	Report on Penguin Embryos Collected During the Discovery Investigations	C W Parsons BA, Lecturer in zoology at the University of Glasgow	December 1932
PP 165 – 190 Plates VII - XLII	On the Distribution and Movements of Whales on the South Georgia and South Shetland Whaling Grounds	Stanley Kemp ScD FRS A G Bennett	December 1932
PP 191 – 204 Plates XLIII - XLIV	On the Development of Cephalodiscus	C C John MA DSc DIC	December 1932
PP 205 – 236 Plates XLV - XLVII Charts 1 - 7	Report on Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations 1926 - 1932	H F P Herdman MSc	December 1932
PP 237 – 392 Plates XLVIII-LVII	Sponges	Maurice Burton MSc, Assistant-Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)	December 1932
Volume VII
pp 3 – 15	Fossil Forminifera from the Burdwood Bank and their Geological Significance	W A Macfadyen MC MA PhD FGS	February 1933
pp 17 – 27	Faecal Pellets from Marine Deposits	Hilary B Moore BSc	March 1933
pp 29 – 138 Plates 1 - VII	Foraminifera. Part II, South Georgia	Arthur Earland FRMS	June 1933
pp 139 – 170	On Vertical Circulation in the Ocean due to the Action of the Wind with Application to Conditions within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Antarctic Circumpolar Current The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is an ocean current that flows from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift. The ACC is the dominant circulation feature of the Southern Ocean and, at approximately 125 Sverdrups, the largest ocean current...	H U Sverdrup	November 1933
pp 173 – 238 Plates VIII - X	A General Account of the Hydrology of the South Atlantic Ocean	G E R Deacon BSc	November 1933
pp 241 – 252 Plates XI - XIII	Whaling in the Dominion of New Zealand	F D Ommanney ARCS BSc	December 1933
pp 255 – 362 Plate XIV	Isopod Crustacea. Part I, The Family Serolidae	Edith M Sheppard MSc	December 1933
pp 365 – 406 Plate XV	Some Aspects of Respiration in Blue and Fin Whales	Alec H Laurie MA	December 1933
Volume VIII
	List of Personnel March 1934
pp 3 – 270	On the Phytoplankton of the South-West Atlantic and the Bellingshausen Sea	T John Hart BSc	January 1934
pp 271 – 318 Plates I - XIII	The Southern Sea Lion, Otaria byronia (De Blainville)	J E Hamilton MSc	January 1934
pp 321 – 330	On a New Species of Mite of the Family Halarachnidae from the Southern Sea Lion	Susan Finnegan BSc PhD	January 1934
pp 331 – 396 Plates XIV - XV	Scyphomedusae	G Stiasny DSC, Leiden	February 1934
Volume IX
pp 3 – 66	Hydrology of the Bransfield Strait	A J Clowes MSc ARCS	February 1934
pp 67 – 160	Distribution of the Macroplankton in the Atlantic Sector of the Antarctic	N A Mackintosh DSc	April 1934
pp 163 – 174 Plate I	The Sub-Antarctic Forms of the Great Skua (Catharacta skua skua)	J E Hamilton MSc	June 1934
pp 177 – 206 Plates II - XIV	The Marine Deposits of the Patagonian Shelf	L Harrison Matthews MA	August 1934
pp 209 – 216	The Development of Rhincalanus	Robert Gurney Robert Gurney Robert Gurney was a British zoologist most famous for his monographs on British Freshwater Copepoda and the Larvae of Decapod Crustacea . He was not affiliated with any institution, but worked at home, initially in Norfolk, and later near Oxford...	September 1934
pp 217 – 294 Plates XV - XVI	Nemerteans from the South Atlantic and Southern Oceans	J F G Wheeler DSc	November 1934
pp 297 – 350 Plates XVI - XXII	The Sea Floor Deposits. I General Characteristics and Distribution	E Neaverson DSc FGS	December 1934
pp 351 – 372	On the Stock of Whales at South Georgia	J FG Wheeler DSc	December 1934
Volume X
pp 3 – 210 Plates I-X	Foraminifera, Part III. The Falklands Sector of the Antarctic (Excluding South Georgia)	Arthur Earland FRMS	December 1934
pp 211 – 248	The Falkland Species of the Crustacean Genus Munida	G W Rayner BSc	April 1935
pp 249 – 282 Plate XI	On the Diatoms of the Skin Film of Whales, and their Possible Bearing on Problems of Whale Movements	T John Hart MSc	June 1935
pp 285 – 382 Plates XII - XXV	The South Orkney Islands	James W S Marr MA BSc	November 1935
pp 383 – 390	Report on Rocks from the South Orkney Islands	CE Tilley BSc PhD	December 1935
Volume XI
pp 1 – 456	The Plankton of the South Georgia Whaling Grounds and Adjacent Waters	A C Hardy MA ER Gunther MA	November 1935
pp 457 – 510	The Continuous Plankton Recorder	A C Hardy MA	December 1936
pp 511 – 538	Observations on the Uneven Distribution of Oceanic Plankton	A C Hardy MA	November 1936
Volume XII
	List of Personnel 1936
pp 1 – 58	Coast Fishes. Part I. The South Atlantic	J R Norman	December 1935
pp 59 – 198	Polychaete Worms	C C A Monro MA	January 1936
pp 199 – 348 Plates I - IX	Echinoidea and Ophiuroidea	Th. Mortensen	March 1936
pp 349 – 378 Plates X - XII	The Birds of the South Orkney Islands	R A B Ardley RNR	February 1936
pp 379 – 440	Larvae of Decapod Crustecea	Robert Gurney DSc	September 1936
Volume XIII
pp 1 – 76 Plates I - IIa	Foraminifera. Part IV, Additional Records from the Weddell Sea Sector from Material Obtained by the SY Scotia With a report on Some Crystalline Components of the Weddell Sea Deposits. by FA Bannister MA	Robert Gurney DSc	September 1936
pp 77 – 106	The Royal Research Ship Discovery II	R A B Ardley RNR N A Mackintosh DSc	July 1936
pp 277 – 384	Rhincalanus Gigas (Brady) A Copepod of the Southern Macroplankton	F D Ommaney PHd ARCS	October 1936
Volume XIV
pp 1 – 192	On the Development and Distribution of the Young Stages of Krill (Euphausia superba)	F C Fraser BSc	December 1936
pp 193 – 324 Plates I - V	The Southern Species of the genus Euphausia	Helene E Bargmann PhD	June 1937
pp 351 – 404	Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part IV. Hippolytidae	Robert Gurney DSc	June 1937
Volume XV
pp 1 –124	The Hydrology of the Southern Ocean	G E R Deacon BSc	March 1937
pp 125 – 152	Note on the Dynamics of the southern Ocean	G E R Deacon	March 1937
pp 153 – 222	New Species of Marine Mollusca from New Zealand	A W B Powell	March 1937
pp 223 – 284	The Age of Female Blue Whales and the Effect of Whaling on the Stock	Alec H Laurie MA	May 1937
Volume XVI
pp 1 – 150 Plates I - V	Coast Fishes. Part II. The Patagonian Region	J R Norman	February 1937
pp 151 – 364 Plates VI - XIII	The Plankton Diatoms of the Southern Seas	N Ingram Hendey FLS FRMS	April 1937
pp 365 – 412	The Seasonal Circulation of the Antarctic Macroplankton	N A Mackintosh DSc	April 1937
pp 413 – 446 Plate XIV	Rhizosolenia curvata Zacharias, an Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean	T John Hart DSc	May 1937
Volume XVII
pp 1 – 6 Plate I	On the Histological Structure of Cetacean Lungs	F Haynes MA Alec H Laurie MA	July 1937
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pp 291 – 344	Larvae of Decapod Crustecea. Part V. Nephropsidea and Thalassinidea	Robert Gurney DSc	July 1938
Volume XVIII
pp 1 – 104 Plate I	Coast Fishes. Part III. The Antarctic Zone	J R Norman	May 1938
pp105 – 120 Plate II	On the Operation of Large Plankton Nets	James W S Marr MA BSc	August 1938
pp 121 – 222 Plates III - VI	Crinoidea	D Dilwyn John MSc	October 1938
pp 223 – 238	Thoracic Cirripeded Collected in 1925 - 1936	C A Nilsson-Cantell, Sweden	January 1939
pp 239 – 264 Plates VII - XIII	The Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx (De Blainville)	J E Hamilton MSc	October 1939
pp 265 – 322 Plates XIV - XIX	Hydromedusae from the Falkland Islands	Edward T Browne PL Kramp	November 1939
pp 323 – 338 Plates XX - XXI	Madreporarian Corals, with an Account of Variation in Carophyllia	J Stanley Gardiner MS FRS	November 1939
Volume XIX
pp 1 – 120 Plates I - XXV	Phosphate and Silicate in the Southern Ocean	A J Clowes MSc ARCS	October 1938
pp 121 – 164 Plates XXVII - XXXIII	A Second Report on the Southern Sea Lion, Otaria Byronia (De Blainville)	J E Hamilton MSc	December 1939
pp 165 – 184 Plates XXXIV - XXXVIII	MacRobertson Land and Kemp Land, 1936 With a Report on Rock Specimens by CE Tilley FRS	George W Rayner	May 1940
pp 185 – 244 Plates XXXIX - XLII	On the Anatomy of Gigantocypris Mulleri	H Graham Cannon ScD FRCS	July 1940
pp 245 – 284 Plates XLIII - LXVIII	Whale Marking, Progress and Results to December 1939	George W Rayner	July 1940
pp 285 – 296 Plates LXIX - XCV	Distribution of the Pack Ice in the Southern Ocean	N A Mackintosh DSc HFP Herdman MSc	July 1940
Volume XX
pp 1 – 68	Larvae of Decapod Crustacea. Part VI. The Genuis Sergestes	R Gurney and M V Lebour	July 1940
pp 69 – 306 Plates I - XXIII	Asteroidea	Walter K Fisher	November 1940
pp 307 – 382 Plates XXIV - XXVI	On the Structure of the Photophores of some Decapod Crustacea	Ralph Dennell DSc	December 1940
Volume XXI
pp 1 – 226 Plates I - IV	Station List 1931 - 1933		February 1941
pp 227– 234 Plates V - VI	A Rare Porpoise of the South Atlantic, Phocana Dioptrica (Lahille, 1912)	J E Hamilton DSc	February 1941
pp 235 – 260 Plates VII - VIII	The Euchiuridae, Sipuncylidae and Priapulidae Collected by the Ships of the Discovery Committee During the Years 1926 to 1937	A C Stephen DSc	October 1941
pp 261 – 356	Phytoplankton Periodicity in Antarctic Surface Waters	T John Hart DSc	October 1942
Volume XXII
pp 1 – 196 Plate I - IV	Station List 1933 - 1935		March 1942
pp 197 – 300	The Southern Stocks of Whalebone Whales	N A Mackintosh DSc	June 1942
pp 301 – 510 Plates V - XIII	Polyzoa (Bryozoa) I. Scrupocellariidae, Apistmiidae, Farciminariidae, Bicellariellidae, Aeteidae, Scrupariidae	Anna B Hastings MA PhD British Museum (Natural History)	September 1943
Volume XXIII
pp 1 – 18	The Gut of Nebaliacea	Helen G Q Rowett	October 1943
pp 19 – 36	On a Specimen of the Southern Bottlenosed Whale, Hyperoodon planifrons	F C Fraser DSc	March 1945
pp 37 – 102	Report on Rocks from West Antarctica and the Scotia Arc	G W Tyrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE	June 1945
pp 103 – 176	The Development and Life-History of Adolescent and Adult Krill, Euphausia superba	Helene E Bargmann PhD	June 1945
pp 177 – 212 Plates I - XIV	The Antarctic Convergence and the Distribution of Surface Temperatures in Antarctic Waters	N A Mackintosh DSc	January 1946
pp 213 – 222 Plate XV	Nebalipsis typica	H Graham Cannon ScD FRS	August 1946
pp 223 – 408 Plate XVI	Report on the Trawling Surveys on the Patagonian Continental Shelf Compiled mainly from manuscripts left by the late ER Gunther MA	T John Hart DSc	December 1946
Volume XXIV
pp 1 – 196 Plates I - III	Station List 1935 - 1937		November 1944
pp 197 – 422 Plates IV - VI	Station List 1937 - 1939		April 1947
Volume XXV
pp 1 – 30 Plates I - IV	Antarctic Pyrenocarp Lichens	I Mackenzie Lamb DSc	March 1948
pp 31 – 38 Plates V - XXII	Whale Marking II. Distribution of Blue, Fin and Humpback Whales Marked from 1932 to 1938	Georfga W Rayner	May 1948
pp 39 – 106 Plates XXIII - XXXI	Soundings Taken During the Discovery Investigations, 1932–39	H F P Herdman MSc	September 1948
pp 107 –112 Plate XXXII	On the Reproductive Organs of Holozoa Cylindrica Lesson	Dr A Arnback Christie-Linde	March 1949
pp 143 – 280 Plates XXXIV - XXXVII	Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1931 - 1938		September 1949
pp 281 – 314 Plates XXXVIII - XLI	Ellobiopsidae	Dr H Boschma FMLS CMZS	November 1949
Volume XXVI
pp 1 – 32 Plate I	The Bathypelagic Angler Fish Ceratias holbolli Kroyer	Robert Clarke MA	September 1950
pp 33 – 46 Plates II - IV	Stylasteridae (Hydrocorals) from Southern Seas	Prof. Hjalmar Broch University of Oslo	January 1951
pp 47 – 196 Plates V - X	Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda	A W B Powell FRSNZ	March 1951
pp 197 – 210	The Vampyromorpha of the Discovery Expeditions	Grace E Pickford	July 1952
pp 211 – 258 Plates XI - XII	Discovery Investigations Station List RRS William Scoresby 1950		April 1953
pp 259 – 280	A Preliminary Report on the Ostracoda of the Benguela Current	E J Iles	October 1953
pp 281 – 354 Plates XIII - XVIII	Open Boat Whaling in the Azores: The History and Present Methods of a Relic Industry	Robert Clarke MA	February 1954
pp 355 – 384	Dispersal in Blue and Fin Whales	S G Brown	January 1954
Volume XXVII
pp 1 – 162 Plates I - XII	Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean Together with Systematic and Biological Notes on Related Specimens from Other Oceans	A K Totton British Museum (Natural History)	April 1954
pp 163 – 200	The Pelagic Mollusca of the Benguela Current Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950 With an Account of the Reproductive System and Sexual Succession of Limacina bulimoides	J E Morton PhD	August 1954
pp 201 – 208	The Circumpolar Continuity of Antarctic Plankton Species	A de C Baker National Institute of Oceanography	August 1954
pp 219 – 234	The Planktonic Decapod Crustacea and Stomatopoda of the Benguela Current Part I. First Survey RRS William Scoresby March 1950	Marie V Lebour DSc	October 1954
pp 235 – 278 Plate XIII	The Distribution of Sagitta gazella Ritter-Zahony	P M David	April 1955
pp 279 – 291	Cumacea of the Benguela Current	N S Jones PhD Marine Biological Station, Port Erin	June 1955
pp 293 – 302 Plates XIV - XVIII	The Wax Plug in the External Auditory Meatus of the Mysticeti	P E Purves Dept of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.)	July 1955
pp 337 – 376	Euphausiacea of the Benguela Current First Survey, RRS William Scoresby, March 1950	Brian P Boden	August 1955
pp 377 – 395 Plates XX - XXI	Cestodes of Whales and Dolphins from the Discovery Collections	S Markowski	September 1955
Volume XXVIII
pp 1 – 190	Mysidacea	Olive S Tattersall DSc	November 1955
pp 191 – 236	The Distribution of the Standing Crop of Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean	P Foxton	April 1956
pp 237 – 298 Plates I - II	Sperm Whales of the Azores	Robert Clarke	December 1956
pp 299 – 398 Plates III - V	Station List 1950 - 1951		November 1955
Volume XXIX
pp 1 – 128 Plates I - VII	Hydromedusae from the Discovery Collections	P L Kramp	February 1957
pp 129 – 140	New Observations on the Aberrant Medusa Tetraplatia volitans Busch	Willam J Rees and Ernest White British Museum (Natural History)	February 1957
pp 141 – 198 Plates VIII - IX	Isopod Crustacea Part II. The Sub-order Valvifera. Families: Idoteidae, Pseudidotheidae and Xenarctuidae Fam.N. With a Supplement to Isopod Crustacea, Part I. The Family Serolidae	Edith M Shephard Department of Zoology, Cardiff	September 1957
pp 199 – 228 Plates X	The Distribution of the Chaetognatha of the Southern Ocean	P M David	April 1958
pp 229 – 244	The Reliability of Deep-Sea Reversing Thermometers	H F P Herdman and L H Pemberton	May 1958
pp 245 – 280 Plates XI - XII	Octocorals Part I. Pennaturalarians	Hjalmar Broch The Zoological Laboratory, Oslo-Blindern, Norway	December 1958
pp 281 – 308 Plate XIII	The Foetal Growth Rates of Whales with Special Reference to the Fin Whale, Balaenoptera Physalus Linn.	R M Laws National Institute of Oceanography	March 1959
pp 309 – 340	The Distribution and Life History of Euphausia triacantha Holt and Tatersall	A de C Baker	April 1959
Volume XXX
pp 1 – 160 Plates I - VI	Ascidiacea	R H Millar	February 1960
pp 161 – 300	The Distribution of Pelagic Polychaetes in the South Atlantic Ocean	Norman Tebble British Museum (Natural History)	April 1960
pp 301 – 408 Plates VII - XXVIII	Studies on Physalia physalis (L.) Part I. Natural History and Morphology Part II. Behaviour and Histology	A K Totton G O Mackie	August 1960
Volume XXXI
pp 1 – 122 Plates I - III	Swimbladder Structure of Deep-Sea Fishes in Relation to Their Systematics and Biology	N B Marshall British Museum (Natural History)	November 1960
pp 123 – 298	The Benguela Current	T John Hart Ronald I Currie	November 1960
pp 299 – 326	The Appendages of the Halocyprididae	E J Iles Dept. Zoology, Univ. of Manchester	February 1961
pp 327 – 486 Plates IV - VII	Reproduction, Growth and Age of Southern Fin Whales	R M Laws	November 1961
Volume XXXII
pp 1 – 32 Plates I - II	Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Related Species	P Foxton	October 1961
33 - 464 Plate III	The Natural History and Geography of the Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba Dana)	James Marr	November 1962
Volume XXXIII
pp 1 – 54 Charts 1 - 11	The Movements of Fin and Blue Whales within the Antarctic Zone	S G Brown	March 1962
pp 55 – 92 Plate I	Rhizocephala	H Boschma Rijksmuseum van Ntuurijke Historie, Leiden	November 1962
pp 93 – 250 Plates II - VII	Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Amphineura, Scaphopoda and Bivalva	R K Dell Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand	November 1964
pp 251 – 307 Plates VIII - XXI	Larves de Cerianthaires	E Leloup Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique	November 1964
pp 309 – 334	The Latitudinal Distribution of Euphausia Species in the Surface Waters of the Indian Ocean	A de C Baker National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey	April 1965
pp 335 – 384 Plates XXII - XXVI	Development of the stolon in Salpa fusiformis Cuvier and Salpa aspera Chamisso	R M Sawicki Rothamstead Experimental Station	April 1966
Volume XXXIV
pp 1 – 116	The Distribution and Life-History of Salpa Thompsoni Foxton with Observations on a Related Species, Salpa Gerlachei Foxton	P Foxton	July 1966
pp 117 – 162	The Distribution and Life-History of Calanoides acutus (Giesbrecht)	Keith J H Andrews	September 1966
pp 163 – 198	The Distribution of Parathemisto Gaudichaudii (Guer), with Observations on its Life-History in the 0° - 20° E Sector of the Southern Ocean	Jasmine E Kane	October 1966
pp 199 – 394 Plates 1 - 17	Polyzoa (Bryozoa) - Ascophora - from North New Zealand	Neil Andrew Powell National Museum of Canada, Ottawa	September 1967
Volume XXXV
pp 1 – 30 Plates I - IV	Seasonal Formation of Laminae in the Ear Plug of the Fin Whale	H S J Roe Whale Research Unit, National Institute of Oceanography	September 1967
pp 31 – 134	Seasonal Cycles and Reproduction in Sei Whales of the Southern Hemisphere	Ray Gambell Whale Research Unit, National Institute of Oceanography	September 1968
pp 135 – 178	Spirorbis Species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) From the South Atlantic	Tegwyn Harris Department of Zoology, Exeter University	September 1969
pp 179 – 198 Plates V - VI	On Ihlea Magalhanica (Apstein) (Tunicata: Salpidae) and Ihlea Racovitzai (Van Beneden)	P Foxton National Iistitute of Oceanography	January 1971
Volume XXXVI
pp 1 – 94	Life Cycle of Antarctic Krill in Relation to Ice and Water Conditions	N A Mackintosh Natural Environment Research Council	February 1972
pp 95 – 156 Plates I - XVII	Distribution of Post-Larval Krill in the Antarctic	N A Mackintosh Natural Environment Research Council	December 1973
pp 157 – 178	Sizes of Krill Eaten by Whales in the Antarctic	N A Mackintosh Natural Environment Research Council	April 1974
pp 179 – 266	Monogena and Digena from Fishes	David I Gibson British Museum (Natural History)	February 1976
Volume XXXVII
pp 1 – 324	Cephalopoda in the Diet of Sperm Whales of the Southern Hemisphere and their Bearing on Sperm Whale Biology	Malcolm R Clarke Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth	March 1980

Books

The Discovery Investigations are described in the following books, all of which were out of print in 2008:

• Great Waters by Sir Alister Hardy
  Alister Hardy
  Sir Alister Clavering Hardy, FRS was an English marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems...
  
   - Collins, 1967
• South Latitude by F D Ommanney - Longmans, 1938
• Discovery II In The Antarctic by John Coleman-Cooke - Odhams, 1963
• A Camera in Antarctica by Alfred Saunders - Winchester Publications, London, 1950

External links

• Scanned copies of many of the reports are available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
  Biodiversity Heritage Library
  The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a project for the digitization of literature on biodiversity. It was founded in 2005 and was initially formed by ten United States and British libraries....
  
  .