150 president's addre-;s--sectiox e 



Two other proininent members of the Antarctic expedition paid the 

 supreme sacrifice in the war, namely, Robert Bage and Leslie 

 Blake. 



These and otliers have passed away, buf a new generation has 

 stepped intO' the breach with plans for fresh expeditions either ]n-o- 

 jected or afoot. 



The Alpine Club, of London, in association with the Geo- 

 graphical Society, has in hand the organization of an expedition to 

 scale Mt. Everest. 



The compreliensive expedition proposed by Mr. Stackhouse, who 

 continued with its organization during 1914-15, was brought toi a 

 sudden conclusion by the death of the leader, who perished as a 

 victim of the Lusitania disaster. 



Dr. J. Cope, formerly the medical officer of the Ross Sea party 

 of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition, formulated plans for an 

 extemsive Antarctic Expedition, but finding difficulties in obtaining 

 the necessary support has reduced his programme tO' the naturei of a 

 limited reconnaissance in Graham's Land. On 20th December last, 

 in company with four companions he bearded a whaling craft at 

 Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, bound for Hope Bay, at the 

 northern extremity of Graham's Land, where it is intended the 

 whalers will land them, returning to pick them up the following 

 year. 



Captain Rdnald Amundsen is launched on another great enter- 

 prise. Fully equipped with an adequate scientific staff, he is lead- 

 ing an expedition on board the old Frani across the North Polar 

 Sea. The scheme is practically to repeat Nansen's drift, but 

 planned to enter the pack further to. the east at a point calculated, 

 in the light of Nansen's experience, to carry the vessel over the pole 

 itself. Continuous s.cientific observations will be conducted 

 throughout the drift. He departed from Norway in 1918, and 

 expects the drift will occupy five or six years. 



Yale University is continuing with its researches in South 

 America, and a further expedition is proposed from the United 

 States of America to the interior of China. 



At the Pan-Pacific Conference held at Honolulu in August last, 

 extensive schemes for geographical work amongst the Pacific Isfands 

 were promulgated, and a brisk period of enterprise in that fasci- 

 nating field can be expected. 



In connexion with the whaling and sealing industry in the 

 Dependencies of the Falkland Islands, an inter-departmental com- 

 mittee* of the Colonial Office has recommended a scheme to employ 

 two research vessels for the investigation of the numerous problems 



* Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Research and Development in 

 the Dependencies of the Falkland Ids., with appendices, maps, Szq. London : pnb. bv 

 H.M. Stationery Offi^e. 1020. 



