Here's another piece of memorabilia from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration for your enjoyment. This time it is a menu card from a famous dinner held to honour Shackleton on returning from his British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909), known today as the Nimrod Expedition. This dinner was a defining event in the fraught relationship between Scott and Shackleton. In proposing his rival's health, Scott indirectly referred to the state of near physical helplessness to which