Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [the Royal Society's representatives on the Committee for the oceanographic expedition] 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. 1 December 1920