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AT a recent meeting of the Board intrusted by the French Government with the care of granting missions for exploring foreign countries, it was decided that none of the regions proposed offered any special field for exceptional services rendered to science. The funds of the Government will be spent neither in exploring Central Africa nor in seeking the north pole, but in excavating Trojan ruins and examining some of the islands of the Asian Archipelago. It was also complained that no qualified traveller had been sent into civilised parts to study the progress of special arts and sciences. Such excursions as the celebrated “Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande,” accomplished by Baron Dupin in 1820 hare rendered immense services to French industry, and the memory of it is not extinguished by the sixty years which elapsed. The sending of regular scientific missions abroad was inaugurated in France by the First Republic, for the purpose, not exclusively for cultivating anthropology, but for introducing into France the progress made by the foreign nations.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 19, 490–491 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019490b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/019490b0