final expenditure, allowing a sum of about £100 for loss on diamonds in the progress of the work, must 

 not exceed the former sum. Injuries to the machinery have to be made good at the expense of the 

 Committee ; every care therefore should be taken to preserve their rods and other tools in good condition, 

 by the use of Brunswick black, tallow, &c. Also payment should be oifered to the Department of Mines 

 at Sydney for stores used up on the Expedition. 



Professor SoLLAS, on arrival at Sydney, is to make the necessary arrangements with the Department of 

 Mines, with the foremen furnished by them, and for the purchase of stores for the use of the Expedition. 

 It is left to Professor Sollas, in consultation with Professor David and Captain Field, to decide as to 

 the quantity of rods, tubes, and other subsidiary articles that are to be carried with the apparatus. In 

 the event of his not returning vid Sydney, he must take care to deliver all the apparatus lent by the 

 Department of Mines to a responsible person for conveyance back to Sydney and to obtain a satisfactory 

 receipt for them, also to arrange for paying wages to all workmen employed, and any debts incurred in 

 carrying out the investigation ; in other words to wind up all the business connected with the Expedition, 

 in that part of the world, either in person or through a responsible agent, so as to secure the Committee 

 against unforeseen claims for wages, purchases, or damages. 



Professor Sollas is to make arrangements for the safe transmission of the diamonds back to England 

 or for the sale of them in Sydney if this can be advantageously done. Professor Sollas is expected to 

 keep an account of all expenditure for the purpose of the investigation and as far as possible to obtain 

 vouchers. This Avill be necessary in order that, among other purposes, Professor Sollas may be able to 

 judge when the approaching exhaustion of the funds makes it necessary to conclude the investigation. 



The Committee expect Professor Sollas personally to superintend the withdrawal of the cores, to see 

 them both so labelled that identification of each specimen is secured, and safely packed for transmission, 

 by such conveyance as he shall arrange. Of these cores and of such other specimens as may be collected 

 by the Expedition (not referring to specimens collected by the volunteers in their private capacity) the first 

 set will be ultimately presented to the British Museum, the second to the Ministry of Mines at Sydney. 

 It is left to the discretion' of Professor Sollas to make the division on the spot and to send the second set 

 of specimens or such part as will not be wanted for study in England, direct to Sydney. But all 

 specimens which are needed for Avorking out the results of the Expedition will be retained by the 

 Committee until this has been done. The consent of the Connnittee must be obtained by any member 

 of the Expedition before publishing scientific details of the investigation. 



The Committee hope that in the event of illness or accident Professor Sollas will endeavour to arrange 

 for the continuance of the investigation. 



(Signed) T. G. BONNEY, Chavrman. 



The story of this Expedition is told by Professor Sollas in Section I, and on 

 November 13, 1896, he presented to the Coral lleef Committee a report on its 

 principal events, the causes of the failure to attain a greater depth than 100 feet, 

 and its general scientific results, after which the following resolution was unani- 

 mously passed : — 



That the Committee are of opinion that Professor SoLLAS in abandoning, under the conditions he has 

 reported, further attempts to prosecute the boring, came to a very proper conclusion, and that the thanks 

 of the Committee are due to him for the manner in which he conducted the Expedition under his charge. 



Instructions were given at the same time for presentation of a preliminary report 

 to the Royal Society* and for the sale of the carbonadoes which had not been 



* See ' Proceedings,' vol. 60, p. 502. 



