The Arctic Seas

On tuesday 4 december 1883, Arthur Conan Doyle attended and spoke about "The Arctic Seas" at the Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society (PLSS) meeting held at the Penny-street Lecture Hall (Portsmouth).

Attendees

• President/Chairman
  • Colonel A. W. Drayson, F.R.A.S., R.A.

• Speakers
  • Arthur Conan Doyle

• Attendees
  • General C. D. Nugent
  • General J. W. Playfair, C.B., R.E.
  • General J. W. Cox, C.B.
  • General C. P. Catty
  • General W. Ramsay
  • Colonel J. Waddell Boyd
  • Colonel Brodigan
  • Major F. S. Terry
  • Captain T. Richey, R.A.
  • Rev. H. Dessart
  • Rev. Dr. G. Colborne
  • Rev. W. J. Staynes
  • Dr. C. F. Edwards
  • Dr. W. H. Axford, Fleet-Surgeon
  • Dr. G. Kell, R.N.
  • Dr. E. K. Knight
  • Dr. F. J. Driver
  • Dr. G. H. Smith
  • Dr. A. Conan Doyle
  • Dr. B. Guillemard
  • Dr. Woods
  • Mr. J. M. Ollis, R.N.
  • Mr. J. Hay
  • Mr. B. Nicholson
  • Mr. G. Ollis
  • Mr. W. Read
  • Mr. J. A. Wilson, R.N.
  • Dental-Surgeon W. H. Kirton
  • Mr. T. Newell
  • Mr. G. Palmer
  • Mr. J. Watkins
  • Mr. A. Howell
  • Mr. J. Abraham
  • Mr. A. Fyson
  • Mr. F. Wollaston
  • Mr. J. R. Constantine
  • Mr. C. Constantine
  • Mr. W. E. Atkins
  • Mr. H. Murrell
  • Mr. J. Muir
  • Mr. E. Byrne
  • Mr. C. Foran
  • Mr. M. Somers Gardner
  • Mr. H. Read
  • Mr. G. Dimmer
  • Mr. F. Fay
  • Mr. E. F. Burton
  • Mr. E. Charpentier
  • Mr. W. Pond
  • Mr. E. Bewley
  • Mr. J. Barmiston
  • Mr. F. Gough,
  • Mr. W. Seymour
  • Mr. J. Rockett
  • Mr. G. F. Bell
  • Dr. J. Ward Cousins, Hon. Sec.

• Elected members
  • Surgeon-General J. Lamprey, P.M.O.
  • Colonel J. Waddell Boyd
  • Dr. C. F. Edwards

• Nominated for membership
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Brodigan
  • Dr. James Niel
  • Capt. T. Richey, R.A.

Conan Doyle lecture

His lecture included the following topics:

• List of the remaining unexplored places on earth and the Arctic.
• History of the expeditions in the Arctic.
• Whale catching and other interesting items in connection with the Arctic seas.
• The question of discovering the North Pole.
• Answer to questions about coal fields in Greenland and Spitzbergen.

Full Report

• Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society (8 december 1883, Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle)

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