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THE President of the Royal Geographical Society has issued an urgent appeal to the Fellows for funds to carry out a National Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic regions on a scale worthy of the traditions of the British nation. He states that a joint committee of the Royal Society and of the Royal Geographical Society has been formed for the purpose of obtaining funds for this purpose, but that “the responsibility of maintaining the credit of the nation in this respect devolves upon the Royal Geographical Society more than on any other body.” The Council has accordingly set aside 5000l. out of the funds of the Society as a nucleus, to which Mr. Harmsworth, one of the Fellows, has generously added a like sum, and we understand that smaller contributions are rapidly coming in. The cost of a completely equipped expedition will be great, too great we fear for a single Society, even so large and so rapidly growing as the Geographical, to provide, for it is estimated at 100,000l. Yet from the point of view of the scientific results sure to be obtained, and the number of the scientific public, the sum is by no means unduly large. Doubtless there will be other Fellows of the Society who can afford and who will not shrink from sharing the position of pre-eminent generosity now occupied by one of their number; but the majority of those interested in the scientific aspects of geography are not wealthy, and they will require assistance from other friends of science.
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The Advancement of Science in the Antarctic. Nature 59, 102 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059102c0
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