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Neumayer, the present director of the famous German 

 Observatory in Hamburg, the most eminent institution 

 for hydrography and maritime meteorology, has not 

 ceased in his efforts to promote an expedition to the 

 south polar regions for purely scientific purposes ever 

 since 1856, when he went to Australia for the second 

 time to fit up and direct the Flagstaff Observatory at 



Georg Neumayer. 



Melbourne, which was erected for the study of terrestrial 

 magnetism, hydrography and meteorology. He had early 

 become aware of the fact that it was practically impossible 

 to prosecute the study of terrestrial magnetism and of 

 atmospheric phenomena so long as the Antarctic regions 

 remained a terra incognita, principally because the obser- 

 vations made by Ross had become too antiquated to be 

 useful to the first named of these two sciences. But 



