| Description | Collection of papers relating to expeditions funded or part-funded by the Royal Society during the late twentieth century. Following expeditions to Chile and Antarctica in the 1950s, the Royal Society Council in 1959 approved setting up a Scientific Expeditions Advisory Service and a new Expeditions Department within the Society's administrative structure.
Destinations of expeditions in this series include: Halley Bay, North Borneo, Aldabra, Brazil, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Tristan da Cunha and expeditions to the 'Southern Research Zone'. Many of the expeditions were organised by George Hemmen, the Society's Expedition Officer, who wrote the following article on the expeditions: Hemmen, George E 'Royal Society Expeditions in the second half of the twentieth century' Notes and Records 64 (2010) pp. S89 - S99.
Note that this collection is not exhaustive of all expeditions in which the Society had involvement. |