POLAR RESEARCH.
-♦ THE 1914 EXPEDITIONS. London, Tuesday. Mr L. R. Stackhouaa, who proposes to complete the exploring and scientific work begun by Captain Scott in the Antarctic, states t&at it will be necessary for the forty-five members of the expedition be will take out in 1914 to be British subjects. Ha has already received 4800 applications from men who want to go. They are mostly from the overseas Dominions and England. Among the applicants ai'd seventeen members of the British peerage, and one of them said he would be willing to go as cook's boy if there were no other poßtiion for him. The scientific party will include a physicist from Canada, a meteorologist from South Africa, and geologists from New Zealand and Australia.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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124POLAR RESEARCH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 631, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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