Introductory remarks

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In 1968, at the Discussion Meeting on the results of the Royal Society Expedition to the Solomon Islands, held in this room, Professor Corner in his introductory paper (1969) mentioned biogeographical relationships of the Solomons flora and fauna to those of adjacent island groups, and said, ‘We shall realize that we ought to explore the New Hebrides’. The Expedition we come here today to discuss grew out of Professor Corner’s suggestion, and came to fruition very largely by his efforts. At Corner’s instigation the Southern Zone Research Committee of the Royal Society approved and supervised the planning of the Expedition. Financial support came from the Royal Society, the Percy Sladen Trust, Overseas Development Administration, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, the Bentham-Moxom Trust, Royal Society of New Zealand, Paris Museum of Natural History, and O.R.S.T.O.M . and support for individual members from their employers. To all of these, to British, French and Condominium government servants and many other European and Melanesian New Hebrideans, and to our wives and families who stayed at home, we owe our thanks for the opportunity to explore those far away and beautiful islands. We thank the Royal Society also for its generosity in bringing us together to discuss and report on the results of our research, and I should like to add my personal thanks to the Society for entrusting to me the leadership of the Expedition.

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