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THE inauguration of the Polar Research Institute, founded at Cambridge in memory of the late Captain Robert Falcon Scott, took place on Saturday, May 22. The proceedings were somewhat modified by the recent industrial upset, which prevented Dr. Nansen and a group of other eminent foreign explorers from attending, so that a lecture on the “Aims of Polar Exploration”, by Dr. Nansen, had to be abandoned. However, on the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. A. C. Seward, a party of some thirty non-residents, of whom more than twenty had crossed one of the polar circles, joined a number of residents at a dinner given by him, and most of the guests were able to visit the Institute in its temporary quarters during the afternoon. Amongst those present at the dinner were Mrs. Hilton Young (Lady Scott), Admiral Sir George Egerton, Rear-Admiral Skelton, Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir Charles Walston, Sir William Hardy, Sir Geoffrey Butler, and representatives of all the important British Antarctic Expeditions.
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The Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. Nature 117, 771–772 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117771b0
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