'Record of the RGS 1830-1930' - a centenary volume

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This book is written by Hugh Robert Mill: GA President in 1932.

I'd quite like a copy. I will have to access one from the RGS or British Library at some point as the current price is a little higher than I'd like.


Details here:
MILL, Hugh Robert. The Record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1930 : Published at the Celebration of the Society's Centenary, October 1930. L.: Royal Geographical Society, 1930. Pp. 288, frontis., + 31 p. of plates and 1 folding plan. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt device to front and gilt lettering to spine. Contents: I) Forerunners ; II) Founders, 1828-1830 ; III) The Happy Start, 1830-1840 ; IV) Bound in Shallows, 1841-1851 ; V) The Supremacy of Murchison, 1851-1870 ; VI) 1 Savile Row and the Secretaries, 1871-1893 ; VII) The Society's Lead in Exploration, 1871-1893 ; VIII) Markham's Mastery, 1893-1905 ; IX) The Revival of Polar Exploration, 1892-1905 ; X) Triennial Presidents, 1905-1914 ; XI) The War Years, 1914-1919 ; XII) The Society's War Work ; XIII) The Tenth Decade, 1920-1930 ; XIV) The Society's House ; XV) Retrospect, 1930-1830.

The foreword was written by another former GA President (and Director of the OS): Charles Close.

Chapter 7 is available here as a PDF.

A review from Nature:

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.


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