NAUTICAL RESEARCH.
A-society has recently been formed in London to undertake research in nautical archaeology, and New Zealanders and Australians are invited to help in collecting from original documents and other contemporary evidence fuller information about the growth of tne Overseas Dominions. Dr Glanville Corney (late chief medical officer in Fiji) has become an. active member. Ho is regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Captain Cook's records, and as quite the greatest on xhe literature of the Spanish Main. Dr. Corney puts in a good deal of time at the Public Records Office and the British Museum, and he also finds time;to visit Spain, authoritiessjgi'ant him- every facility in finding 'references. ;;o .the days when Spain was 'at the height of its maritime power. -.The new society is in hopes of rinding in. Australia some traces of Spanish and other navigators at present uncollected.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 4
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146NAUTICAL RESEARCH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 4
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