ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 6

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

AWARDS TO EXPLORERS.

At the anniversary meeting of tho Royal Geographical Society recently t-lie King's Medal was presented by t.lie prepdent to Commandant Tillio, of tlio French Colonial infantry, for his lon?continued surveys and explorations inNorthern A'frica. The rounders Medal was awarded to Hiss Gertrude -Bell for .her important explorations and travels in Asia Minor, Syria, Arabia, and on tha Euphrates. As Miss Bell cculd not be present the medal was Riven to her father, Sir Hugh Bell. The Mnrohwon gra-jfc was given to Air. C. A. Keicl, an 1 Australian minim? engineer, for Jus maps of the Belgian Congo. _ The Back grant was awarded to Captain It. A. Barfh-tt for his distinguished leadership after the loss of the Karluk. Mr. G. I'. Archer was the recipient of the' Cutlibert Peek grant, for,his survey* m Bast Africa connecting Major ,'Gwynn s Abyssinian triano-ulation with the tnangulation ot East Africa. The Gill Memorial was ■ riven to Dr. Cutlibert Christy for his surveys and explorations in Central Africa. ijir George Perlev, who attended as High Commissioner of Canada, to the giant awarded to Captain Bartlett, said that it had fallen to his lo„ as a member of (he Canadian ™ conduct the negotiations with Stetannsen, with whom Captain Bartlett was associatS?r Thomas Ho'.dich, in the course of liis presidential address, said there nan been no organised explorations since uia return of the Shackleton «retlition, out geographical problems ol the highc-t - pounce were waiting then.. The, chief task !'o bo performed was that of adjusting tiie boundaries of States and alities so as to preserve the worlds peace. He hoped some international authority would arise powerful enough to dir-'ot streams of emigration. Anottci «reat problem was that of rtgulatlllg the overflow of the Asiatic populations. Ifc survey of possible lands for peoples was largely a geographical problem. He advocated the use ot the aeio-. plane for exploration und survey. in Mesopotamia and Palestine here had been an extension of geographical ma ping which hereafter might hll them with astonishment.