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amounts were subsequently placed upon the Budgets for 1891 

 by tbe Governments named : — New South Wales, £1334 

 (conditional on the sum of £666 being raised by public 

 subscriptions); Queensland, £1000; and Tasmania, £500. 

 Although the Queensland Government were unable to carry 

 the vote in Parliament, your Committee have reason to 

 believe that the grant will again be brought before the 

 Legislature next Session, and with a more favourable result. 

 Mr. A. C. MacDonald, F.R.G.S. (Hon. Treasurer of 

 the Antarctic Fund) reports the present position of the 

 subscription list to be as follows : — 



£ 



Hon. Sir Thomas Elder, G.C.M.G 5000 



Robert Reid, Esq • .■... 1000 



Royal Geographical Societv of Australasia, Victorian 



Branch .' 200 



Subscriptions raised by the Council of tlie New South 

 Wales Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 Australasia, including £100 from its President, the 



Hon. E. C. Mere wether, M.L.C.,— about 200 



Royal Society of Victoria 100 



Prof W. Kernot, M.A., C.E., F.R.G.S 100 



J. L. Currie, Esq., F.R.G.S 100 



J. S. Gotch, Esq., (Gordon and Gotch) 100 



Dr. W. Agnew, M.L.C 100 



Royal Society of Tasmania 50 



Subscriptions under £50 each — about 200 



Amount placed ujwn the New South Wales Budget 1334 



Aiiiount placed upon the Tasmanian Budget 500 



£9044 

 To this has to be added the subscription promised by Baron 



Oscar Dixon 5000 



Total £14,044 



The Trustees of the Antarctic Fund are : — Consul H. 

 Gundersen, Consul -General Sweden and Norway ; Colonel 

 B. L. J. Ellery, C.M.G., Government Astronomer ; and 

 Commander C. Pasco, R.N. , President Antarctic Committee. 

 Subscriptions as they come in are placed by the Hon. 

 Treasurer to the credit of the Trustees in the Commercial 

 Bank, Melbourne. 



Your Committee cannot help expressing surjirise that the 

 Governments of Western Australia and New Zealand, the 

 two Colonies most prominently commercially benefited by 



