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cost insignificant in comparison with the value of the results likely to be obtained. 

 Some day doubtless — and, let us hope, some day not far in the future — there 

 will be a permanent meteorological station on one of the fine harbours of the 

 Auckland Islands, with another on Campbell Island, and perhaps still another 

 on Cape Adare, connected with the first and with New Zealand by wireless 

 telegraphy ;* and if to these stations there be added suitable accommodation and 

 appliances for the collection, preservation, and observation of geological, zoological, 

 and botanical material there will be a ready means afforded for gathering in that 

 rich harvest of results that lies ready for the worker ; and earnest workers will 

 not be wanting. The commercial value of such stations would be considerable ; 

 their value, judged by the importance of the scientific problems they would help 

 to solve, would be beyond calculation. 



* A meteorological station is maintained by the Argentine Government on Laurie Island, in the 

 South Orkneys, in lat. 60° 44' S., long. 44° 50' W., on the site of the station set up by the Scottish 

 National Antarctic Expedition. 



