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This seems to prove the presence of a subsidiary fold trending 
easterly along the coast of Antarctica till it joins what may be 
termed the federated folds of New Zealand and Australia, near 
their knotting point. It will be important for future exploring 
expeditions to trace by a systematic series of soundings the 
position of these folds on the ocean floor, southerly from Tasmania 
and south by west from New Zealand. 
That one, perhaps two, t well organised expeditions may shortly 
be expected in Antarctic regions is extremely probable, as may 
be judged from the following facts : — The Royal Geographical 
Society, after Dr. Murray's address in 1894, appointed an 
Antarctic committee. This committee moved the Council of the 
Royal Society to advocate strongly the need for further Antarctic 
exploration, and last December the Council of the British Associa- 
tion passed a resolution strongly in favour of the work being 
undertaken, and various scientific bodies, as well as the Agents- 
General of the Australasian colonies, have been approached on the 
subject. It is proposed to send a Belgian expedition into the 
Antarctic next September, the expedition to extend over eighteen 
or twenty months. It would be fully equipped for scientific 
observation, and the route suggested is one to the east of 
Graham's Land, in the direction of the recent discoveries of the 
Jason. 
With reference to the lines on which Dr. Murray would suggest 
that an expedition to Antarctica should be conducted, he states 
{op. cit. p. 25) : — "A dash at the South Pole is not, however, what 
I now advocate, nor do I believe that is what British science, at 
the present time, desires. It demands, rather, a steady, con- 
tinuous, laborious and systematic exploration of the whole 
southern region with all the appliances of the modern investigator. 
This exploration should be undertaken by the Royal Navy. Two 
ships not exceeding one thousand tons should, it seems to me, be 
fitted out for a whole commission, so as to extend over three 
summers and two winters. Early in the first season a wintering 
t Reference to a third proposed expedition is given in note 3, at the end 
of this paper. 
