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SOME four years ago (NATURE, vol. i. p. 527), we directed attention to the desirable opportunity, presented by the Transit expeditions to several little-known spots in the Pacific, of sending out qualified Natural-History observers to the same islands, in order to obtain a knowledge of their flora and fauna. The astronomical stations selected as being especially worthy of this kind of research were the Sandwich Islands, Kerguelen's Land, and the Island of Rodriguez. This subject having been brought before the Council of the Royal Society last year, and thus to the notice of the Treasury, we are glad to be able to announce that, after certain little difficulties on account of the change of Government, the present ministry were induced to grant a sum of money sufficient to send out naturalists to two of these stations, and that arrangements are now being made for their speedy departure along with their astronomical brethren.
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The Transit Expeditions To Rodriguez and Kerguelen's Land . Nature 10, 33 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010033a0
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