| Description | Collection of papers relating to expeditions funded or part-funded by the Royal Society during the twentieth century. The earliest material in this collection is the photographs from the 1901 National Antarctic Expedition. There are also papers from the Society's expedition to Chile and the establishment of Halley Bay in Antarctica in the 1950s. Following these expeditions 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: Antarctica, 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. |