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2. Prof. Herdman, F.R.S., as a Member of the National 
‘it was explained that a great Antarctic expedition 
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by the death of Mr. G. H. Morton, F.G.S., who had 
been a member of council of the Society since its in-" 
aucuration. | 
Antarctic Expedition Committee, gave a lecture on 
“Why we wish to explore the Antarctic, with special 
reference to the projected Expedition.” At the outset 
was expected to start from England in the latter half 
of 1901, which would act in concert with an expedi- 
tion now being promoted in Germany, and a sinaller 
one—of a rather more private character—which was 
being organised in Scotland. The object was to 
explore in three years certain portions of the 
Antarctic Circle as thoroughly as possible, and not 
merely to discover the South Pole, as was popularly 
supposed. The projected expeditions were the result 
of a very great deal of work on the part of scientific 
men during the past ten years, and great credit was 
due amongst others to Sir John Murray, the eminent 
oceanographer, who had helped most materially to 
inaugurate the arrangements. The leadership has 
been given to Professor Gregory, a distinguished 
geologist who had been recently appointed Professor 
of Geology at Melbourne. ‘The world of science 
was expecting to receive great advantages from 
the expedition, and every department of natural 
knowledge would be enriched by a systematic explor- 
ation of the regions under consideration. lIlence the 
great interest which scientific men, apart from 
Geographers, were evincing in the forthcoming 
expedition. It was on this account, too, that the 
Royal Society had taken the matter up, and, along 
with the Royal Geographical Society, had been instru- 
