(3) To appoint a reporter to the next Congress, who shall submit a general summary of progress made in the subjects considered.

In accordance with these resolutions we are desired by the Bureau of the Congress to send you copies of such of the resolutions adopted by the Congress as require the co-operation of the various Geographical Societies of the world. It is only by such co-operation that these resolutions can be carried into effect. The Bureau trust, therefore, that your Society will take such action as may be considered most effective with a view to accomplishing the objects which the Congress had in view in adopting the resolutions sent herewith.

As it will be necessary for the Bureau to present a Report to the next meeting of the Congress at Berlin in 1899, we should esteem it a favour if you would inform us not later than June 1898, what have been the results of any action which your Society may have taken in conformity with the terms of the various resolutions.

We have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient Servants,

J. Scott Keltie, ) „ , Hugh Robert Mill, | •

To the Secretary.

International Geographical Congress.

London, 1895.

RESOLUTIONS.

Antarctic Exploration.

That the Congress record its opinion that the exploration of the Antarctic Regions is the greatest piece of geographical exploration still to be undertaken. That, in view of the additions to knowledge in almost every branch of science which would result from such a scientific exploration, the Congress recommends that the scientific societies throughout the world should urge, in whatever way seems to them most effective, that this work should be undertaken before the close of the ccntury.

Geographical Bihliography.

That the Permanent Bureau of the Congress should follow out the study of Geographical Bibliography; and that it be autborised to associate with itself competent persons, and to give them the necessary power for prosecuting the inquiry.