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in Tasmania, but he was glad to say that after it left the 

 sum of £5U0 had been voted, which had removed from 

 the State the disgrace of not assisting the expedition. 

 When its history was written, this expedition would stand 

 as one of the most memorable ever undertaken to the 

 Antarctic. He was familiar with the work of the Ger- 

 man, French, Belgian, and English expeditions, but in no 

 expedition, at any rate in the South, had he ever heard 

 of such a feat being performed as that of Dr. Mawson. 

 The loss of his two companions was bad enough for a man's 

 nerves, but in spite of that, with a temperature 30 or 40 

 degrees below zero, and with winds which occasionally 

 reached 90 miles an hour, he found his way back to his 

 base with a sledge and two or three dogs, after 21 days 

 over heavy and broken ice. It was one of the most 

 wonderful feats ever done in Arctic or Antarctic exjDlora- 

 tion. 



Mr. C. T. Harrisson, who was received with loud ap- 

 plause, returned thanks for the kindness which had been 

 shown him, and said that he appreciated the honour of 

 having been a representative of Tasmania in this expedi- 

 tion. Of the work done, he could only say that they were 

 ambitious of carrying out more than they effected. The 

 biological work was very disappointing, and they were six 

 months before they saw a stone or a rock of any descrip- 

 tion, except some pebbles from the stomach of a penguin. 

 They afterwards found that the nearest rock was 35 miles 

 to the south-east, while in the other direction it was 60 

 miles away in a straight line. He could endorse all that 

 Colonel Legge had said about the leader of the expedition. 

 Dr. Mawson, and his organisation. They could not have 

 had better men than Dr. Mawson, Captain Davis, and Mr. 

 Wild, and the organisation was splendid. The food and 

 the clothing were not only abundant, but they were the 

 best of their kind. There was hardly a thing sr)oiled when 

 the cases were opened. In regard to the ability of Aus- 

 tralians to stand the cold, he said that tw^o members of 

 the expedition came from Queensland, one being from 

 Rockhampton, and they not only stood the cold, but re- 

 turned stouter and better men than when they left their 

 homes run down by the heat. 



Election of Memhers. 

 Mr. E. Morris Miller, M.A., Mr. P. R. Seager, LL.B, 

 Mr. Hector Ross, Mr. G. M. Johnstone, LL.M., 

 Mr. Edward Hawson, Mr. R. C. Stephens, B.A., 



