| Description | Present at the meeting of the Circumpolar Committee: William Spottiswoode, President, in the Chair; Dr RAce; Sir George Richards; Mr Scott; Sir John Evans, Treasurer
Minutes of meeting of 1 March 1882 read and confirmed.
Letter from Hudson's Bay Company's Superintendent in Canada read [contents not stated]. Resolved that inquiries be made of the Hudson's Bay Company as to the possibility of makeing arrangements for the occupation of Fort Resolution on the South Shore of Slave Lakes as a Meteorological Station instead of Fort Simpson.
Rough notes of a provisional estimate for the Expediton expenses listed.
Seven applications for post of Chief Observer read, from MAjor D R Cameron; Captain Dawson; Captain Holford Walker; Captain Martin; Lieutenant Gunner; Leutenant Heathcome Tapp, Royal Welsh Regiment; Mr Roland Bell
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