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THE researches of the surveying ships of the British Navy have from time to time rendered services to science no less important than those which it is their function to perform for navigation. It has become an established practice to encourage the surgeons of these vessels to undertake scientific investigations in the leisure which their professional duties frequently afford, and facilities are sometimes given for a competent man to continue such work by allowing his transference to another vessel when his own has to leave the place where he has been working. For this the Admiralty deserves credit and the thanks of those who desire to see her Majesty's ships maintaining the position they took up in the days of Cook, and continued through the voyage of the Beagle, and the long line of expeditions which followed it, to the voyage of the Challenger. While it may not be too much to hope for a renewal of special marine research by the Royal Navy before private enterprise reaps the waiting scientific harvest of the unknown Antarctic, we feel that too much prominence cannot be given to the good work done incidentally in the course of routine surveys.
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MILL, H. Studies of a Growing Atoll. Nature 51, 203–204 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051203a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/051203a0