POLAR EXPLORATION
TRIBUTES TO CAPTAIN 'SOOT-iT AND DR. MAWSON.^
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. LONDON, May 2% Lord Curzon, president of ther.Rojral Geographical Society, presented iLady Scott with a casket and-watch, ™iielv were to have been awarded to her Irns-Loi-d Curzon said that the Royal Geo* graphical Society's public subscription would enable the scientific Captain Scott's 'expedition to be puß>- < lished on a scale never previously attempted. Lady Scott had promised theSociety" her husband's diary.;afteiS.it has, ,; oeen used,in compiling a book* B'h'e will-'' presently publish. .- ; ... . "'V Lord Curzon paid a high tribute ;to Dr. Mawsdn, who. "he said, had- escaped after a. display o'f fortitude! and: endurance almost without parallel-in. the history of exploration. «'The Society looked ' forward to the opening of the -1914 session of Dr. story.; /!« hoped others would be .induced to follow Dr. Mawson in the work of mapping the contour of the- Antarctic- continent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 28 May 1913, Page 5
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