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WE print below a letter which Prof. Poulton has addressed to the Fellows of the Royal Society regard to the Antarctic expedition. In it he gives a history of the circumstances which have caused Prof. J. W. Gregory to resign the leadership of the scientific staff. The reason for this, to follow the Professor's words, that since he left England in February changes have been made in his position in regard to the naval cornmander of the expedition which deprived him of any guarantee that the scientific work would not be subordinated to naval adventure, “an object adrnirable in itself, but not the one for which I understood this expedition to be organised.” The history of the negotiations before and since the beginning of the present year—the date of the letter in which these words occur—show that when Prof. Gregory accepted the leadership of the scientific work (late in 1899), much stress had been laid on the scientific aspect of the expedition, and that the alterations made since the beginning of the present year have increased the authority of the naval commander.
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POULTON, E. The National Antarctic Expedition . Nature 64, 83–86 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064083a0
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