ANTARCTIC GALLERY

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 10

ANTARCTIC GALLERY

Public Meeting At Museum i To discuss plans for a galilery of Antarctic exploration and scientific research at the Canterbury Museum, a public ■ meeting will be held at the I museum lecture theatre on : August 24. It is being called by the Canterbury branch of the I New Zealand Antarctic SoIciety, and the director of the [museum (Dr. R. S. Duff) will I speak. I Dr. Duff told the Museum [Trust Board yesterday that since tentative plans for this gallery were announced as pert of the museum’s hundredth anniversary building plan, considerable interest had been shown, and the Antarctic Society had offered support. Besides displaying the museum’s present Antarctic relics, the new section would include offices and reference rooms. A great deal of additional Antarctic material was privately owned in Canterbury, and much of it might be made available to the museum, Dr. Duff said. The society might help in these arrangements. An example was the recent accession of an important collection of relics of Scott’s Terra Nova and Shackleton’s Nimrod expeditions made by Mr O. R. D. Whitford, of Cashmere, whose father, Mr G. A. C. Whitford, was a shipwright at Lyttelton and helped to fit out both vessels. As a result he received mounted specimens of Emperor and Adelie penguins, personal relics of crew members, and a valuable reference set of named and identified photographs.