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of first, approaching the Commonwealth Government with Dr. 

 Mawson and his proposals, and do all it can to get the Common- 

 w^ealth Government to support it, and for that purpose a special 

 sub-committee might be appointed, and it would be easy to select 

 a sufficient number of members who could attend to that without 

 travelling long distances. Secondly, its duties would include the 

 collection of money in each State from private individuals and 

 possibly from State Governments, and for this purpose we should 

 have to appoint a local committee in each State ; such local 

 committees to be formed out of this General Committee, and each 

 local committee would have power to add to its number locally, 

 so as to make influential local committees. Thirdly, there would 

 be the very important duty to draw up the scheme of the scientific 

 work of the expedition. There should be a special sub-committee 

 to draft that work. One member of that committee should be 

 Professor David, who has had vast experience in Antarctic work. 

 There should be others there to represent meteorology, and so on. 

 They would draft a scheme and circulate it by post so that every 

 member of the Committee should have an opportunity of criticising 

 it and getting it altered. Finally, the duties would include the 

 appointment of members to the expedition, and the same sub- 

 committee that deals with the scheme of scientific work might 

 consider in the first instance how many and what sort of men 

 should be appointed ; and then very small sub-committees should 

 set to work to find the right men. For example, we might have a 

 sub-committee consisting of Professor Pollock and Professor Lyle 

 to appoint a physicist, another to appoint a meteorologist, and 

 another to appoint a medical man, and so on. All these actions 

 of the sub-committees would have to be approved of by the whole 

 Committee, but that could always be done by circulating the 

 proposals in writing. (Hear, hear.) I thought'it better to show 

 that there is a practical way of working this Committee, scattered 

 as it is over Australia and New Zealand. 



Mr. SuGDEN supported the recommendation for the appoint- 

 ment of a committee as outlined by the President, and the proposal 

 was carried unanimously. 



Dr. Hall asked was provision made for the expenditure of 

 money by Committees on printing and postage. 



The President : I am glad you mentioned it, and I am in- 

 formed by the Permanent Honorary Secretary that he will see to it. 



Votes of Thanks. 



The following votes of thanks were moved and carried \nth 

 acclamation : — 



To the Governor, on the motion of Professor I,aurie, seconded 

 by the Rev. Mr. Sugden. 



To the Sydney University on the motion of Mr. Shirley, seconded 

 by Colonel Legge. 



