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ON Tuesday, July 7, Prince Arthur of Connaught unveiled a statue of Captain Cook, which stands on the Mall side of the Admiralty Arch, at the end of the Processional Road. The proposal to erect the statue was made in 1908 by Sir J. H. Carruthers, who pointed out that there was no memorial of Captain Cook in London. The matter was taken up by the British Empire League, and a general committee, under the presidency of the Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel, M.P., was formed to promote the erection of a statue. The necessary funds were raised, and in 1911 Sir T. Brock, R.A., was commissioned to execute the memorial. One hundred and thirty-five years have elapsed since Cook met his death at the hands of savages in the Sandwich Islands, and it is remarkable that no monument to his memory should have been erected in the capital of the Empire. But if the statue is late it is undoubtedly adequate. The British Empire League deserves the gratitude of all citizens of the empire for its public spirit in raising so worthy a monument to one who extended the imperial bounds.
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Memorial Statue of Capt. Cook . Nature 93, 481–482 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093481c0
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