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3. Antarctic Exploration.—Captain Ross in his British Antarctic Ex- 
pedition, makes some unfounded assertions and ungenerous remarks, 
Commander of the American Expedition, published in the Washing. 
ton Union, Aug. 12, 1847 :— 
In Captain Ross’s work, vol. i, p. 116, he says: 
* That the Commanders of each of these great national undertakings 
preparing, and thereby forestalling our purposes, did certainly greatly 
e 
Without adverting to the bad taste and egotism of the above extract, 
and the broad assertions relative to the want of national pride in the 
commanders of the French and American Expeditions, it will only be 
necessary in reply to point to dates. 
On the first page of his introduction are the following  state- 
Ments :— 
“ At the eighth meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, held at Newcastle, in August, 1838, the attention of 
Whewell, (now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge,) Mr. Peacock, 
(now Dean of Ely,) and Professor Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, * 
represent to her Majesty’s government a series of resolutions adopte 
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South is as follow 
“ These objects will, it is presumed, occupy you until the last of Oc- 
tober; and when attained, as far as may be possible, you will proceed 
