Our Daily Bill: Shipboard

Wilson getting his hair cut by Meares (L) and Pennell? (R) onboard the Terra Nova, 1910

Wilson will do great things some day. He has quite the keenest intellect on board, and a marvellous capacity for work. You know his artistic talent, but you would be surprised at the speed with which he works and the indefatigable manner in which he is always at it. ... He has fallen at once into ship life, helps with every job that may be on hand, doctors the men, keeps an eye on the ventilation of the ship, runs the wine as caterer, is great friends with all the young lieutenants, and in fact is an excellent fellow all round.

– Robert Falcon Scott in a letter to Sir Clements Markham, on the Discovery
from Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, pg 77