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to print in Parts, and that will be an attempt to get prompt pub- 

 lication. As regards the matter of personal attendance at section 

 meetings, which has been referred to, there are very great diffi- 

 culties in keeping a large body of men and women together for 

 even so short a period as one week, and the only possible way that 

 T can see would be to keep them by force in some such institution 

 as Darlinghurst, with a turnkey to see that everybody does the 

 originally arranged business of his Section. 



Professor Henderson : I would suggest as a way out of the 

 difficulty that the social functions of this meeting should be cut out. 



The President : This discussion has been all important. 

 Every suggestion that has been made has been immediately con- 

 tradicted by another member. The only suggestion that was not 

 immediately opposed by some other member was that of Professor 

 Henderson, and I am prepared to oppose that. (Hear, hear.) I 

 think Professor Henderson will see that there are reasons against 

 his suggestion. A great deal of the work to be done here by the 

 Sections can be done in meeting, but members are enabled by 

 social engagements to polish up their ideas by conversational 

 friction of a very pleasant kind. (Hear, hear.) The officials of 

 the Association will be forced to reflect over what has been said. 



Antarctic Expedition. 



The President : The only other business submitted from the 

 Recommendation Committee is the request by Dr. Mawson that 

 the Association should vote £1,000 towards the expenses of the 

 proposed Antarctic Expedition. You will remember that a special 

 committee was appointed to deal with that request, that committee 

 consisting of the President, the Treasurer, the Permanent Honorary 

 Secretary of the Association, the President and Secretary of the 

 Geographical Section, and Dr. Mawson. The Committee has 

 unanimously, after very careful consideration, adopted a recom- 

 mendation. That recommendation has been put before the 

 Recommendation Committee, and it was after discussion adopted 

 without dissent, although there was a good deal of discussion. At 

 the same time I feel, and we all feel, that the proposal we have 

 adopted is so large and important, and so novel a one, that a full 

 explanation is due to you before you are asked to endorse our 

 recommendation. The financial question arose immediately. 

 What is the position of this Association ? We have something 

 approximating to £3,000 of our own. That has been, as was 

 pointed out by your Honorary Treasurer, referred to wrongly as 

 a Research Fund. The rules provide definitely tiiat interest on 

 a certain portion of our funds is earmarked as a Research Fund. 

 The rest is not earmarked in any way. In the first place that 

 £3,000 is vested as a trust under trustees, and the recommendation 

 which I shall read to you later is in the form of a recommendation 

 to be adopted by this Council and passed on to the trustees. It 



