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of the Ice Age, which are there alone to be seen in active 
operation, and we must investigate the nature and dis- 
tribution of the rocks, which contain for the palaeonto- 
logist an entirely new fossil fauna and flora. For the 
botanist, unfortunately, we cannot hold out any hopes, 
but for the zoologist there awaits a most interesting and 
extensive fauna. Pendulum observations ought also to 
be made ; and above all we must take systematic mag- 
netic observations both on land and at sea, and make 
meteorological observations at several points throughout 
the entire year. Much can, and we hope much will, be 
done by private enterprise ; but can we not make a national 
effort, as we did in the days of Cook, Weddell, Ross, and 
the Challenger, and show that the Britain of to-day is 
not behind the Britain of our fathers? 
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