| Description | Explains that the Royal Society has considered a Minute from the British Association's Council, proposing a new British circumnavigating scientific expedition to study the ocean, and inviting the Royal Society to co-operate and nominate representatives onto a committee for this purpose. Lists the British Association's committee so far: the President and General Officers, Dr [Francis Arthur] Bather, Sir [Frank Watson] Dyson, Professor [John] Stanley Gardiner, Sir [Richard Arman] Gregory, Sir [Sidney Frederic] Harmer, Sir [John] Scott Keltie, Dr [Peter] Chalmers Mitchell, the Honourable Sir [Charles Algernon] Parsons, and Sir [Thomas Edward] Thorpe.
Explains that the President and Council of the Royal Society have resolved to appoint the following Fellows to the British Association's Committee, and to help them bring a case for the expedition before the Government:
Professor [Frederick William] Gamble
Professor [John] Graham Kerr
[Arthur Robert] Hinks, Esq.
Professor [Horace] Lamb
Colonel [Henry George] Lyons
Sir David Prain
Sir Arthur Schuster. |