Sunday 10 May 2009

Wednesday May 9, 1894

Meeting of Antarctic Comee of R.S. at 11.30. Saw Mr Jenkins at Admy about vacancies in staff.

William Christie, Astronomer Royal


RH says..... The Antarctic Committee was actually a joint committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society, founded after the RGS president, Sir Clements Markam, began to promote an Antarctic voyage. The RS seems to have been a bit ambivalent and it was to take Markam several more years before funding and enthusiasm reached the necessary levels and the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04 could go ahead.

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