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A MEETING to further the interests of the forthcoming expedition, under Captain Scott, to the South Polar regions, was held at the Mansion House on Tuesday last, the Lord Mayor presiding. Captain Scott laid the plans and objects of the expedition before the meeting, and stated that 40,000l. was required for the estimated cost of the first year's work. He further said that if that sum was contributed by this country he hoped that, with the cooperation of the over-seas dominions, they might raise a sum sufficient to carry on the work until it was finished, that was to say, if necessary, for a second and possibly a third season. He would prefer a request for support to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, because the scientific work of an expedition of that kind its meteorological and magnetic observations—was possibly of greater use to the countries which lay adjacent to the region of research than it was to the homeland. A resolution in support of the expedition was passed.
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Notes . Nature 81, 460–465 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081460a0
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