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THE huge audience which filled the Albert Hall on Wednesday evening, May 21, on the occasion of the Royal Geographical Society's meeting to hear Commander Evans's account of the Scott expedition to the Antarctic, showed no less by its eager plaudits than by its suppression of them at the fitting moments that the public sense of the tragedy of the expedition is not dulled by familiarity. Yet throughout the proceedings there was no false note of sentiment; the president, Lord Curzon, stated, without risk of misunderstanding, that the tribute of the society to the dead had been paid already, and begged any (and there were some) who felt that “this great reception is inconsistent with the feelings of sorrow which affect us all” to “abandon such a reflection,” for that he was sure that Scott himself would not have had his companions forgo the reward of their labour. And the story of the expedition was told by Commander Evans very simply; he exhibited the sense of loss which all his collaborators share in a few words only, and by implication rather than by direct statement. Finally, the tribute paid by both president and lecturer to the generosity of the public and to the Government for the provisions made for the dependants of those who are lost showed that any criticism which has been directed against the allowances made from the public funds is without official concurrence.
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The Scott Expedition to the Antarctic . Nature 91, 330–331 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091330a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091330a0