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south. A small bonus from our Government would induce her 

 owners to allow her to return with her cargo to Melbourne, and 

 thus to initiate the new industry which we have long sought to 

 get our local shipowners and merchants to embark in — so far 

 without success. Efforts should also be made to secure a passage 

 for a scientific observer, whose work need not impede the work of 

 the voyage whilst it should be of the greatest scientific value. 



We must congratulate the Society upon the efforts made by the 

 joint Committee during the past seven years, as they have resulted 

 in the re-opening of the Antarctic Seas, after fifty years of 

 absolute neglect. 



G. S. Griffiths, 

 Ho7t. Secretary Antarctic Siib-Co7Ji7nittee. 



