Abstract
IT was a happy choice to entrust the compilation of the record of the Royal Geographical Society's work to Dr. H. R. Mill, with his forty years' experience of the Society and many years' service on its staff. He acknowledges the valued assistance, throughout the work, of Mr. Douglas Freshfield, whose connexion with the Society runs to more than half a century. It cannot have been an easy task to know what to choose and what to omit in the record of the multifarious activities of a Society that was actively interested in practically all the journeys of exploration of its time. Dr. Mill has divided his record into periods of ten or more years, and in each period he has traced the changing fortunes of the Society, given some account of its presidents and other officials, and generally has had to rest content to gauge the work of the time by adding some account of the Society's medallists and the leaders of the expeditions which it has promoted or assisted.
The Record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1930.
Dr. Hugh Robert Mill. Published at the Celebration of the Society's Centenary, October 1930. Pp. xvi + 288 + 35 plates. (London: Royal Geographical Society; Edward Stanford, Ltd.; John Murray, 1930.) 10s.
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B., R. The Record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830–1930 . Nature 126, 679–680 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126679a0
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