 | Board of Visitors minutes July 19, 1939 |  |
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY AND UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EXPEDITION TO SOUTH PACIFIC:
The President stated that the primary purpose of the meeting, as expressed
in the call, is to consider the terms of a proposed agreement between National Geographic
Society and the University providing for an expedition to the Central South Pacific
Islands under the leadership of Professor Wilbur A. Nelson, and to be known as the -
"National Geographic Society—University of Virginia Geophysical Expedition to the
Central South Pacific Islands with the Co-operation of the United States Coast Guard
1939-1940".
The President then requested Dr. Wilbur A. Nelson, who was present at the
meeting, to explain to the Committee the plans and purposes of the proposed Expedition;
and in accordance with this request Dr. Nelson addressed the meeting, giving a brief
outline of the background of the Expedition, its purposes and the possibilities of
important scientific discoveries being made by reason thereof.
Mr. Perkins, Attorney for the Board, then presented to the meeting a form of
agreement between National Geographic Society and the University, covering the conditions
under which the expedition is being organized and the respective undertakings of the
National Geographic Society and the University with reference thereto.
After a full discussion of the whole situation, the following resolution
was adopted:
RESOLVED that the proposed agreement between the National Geographic Society
and the University of Virginia, submitted to this meeting by the Attorney for the
University, be and is hereby approved, and the President is hereby authorized and
requested to execute and deliver said contract in the name and on behalf of the
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. Said contract shall not be
operative, however, until Professor Nelson, the Leader of the Expedition, and each
and every member of said Expedition's scientific staff shall have executed and
delivered to the University a properly executed release by which the University shall
be relieved from any and all responsibility for loss or damage to personal property,
from liability for illness, accident, personal injuries, or death, arising out of,
connected with, or in any manner occurring during the Expedition, the preparations
therefor, or resulting therefrom, said release to be in such form as may be
prescribed by the Attorney for the University.
| Board of Visitors minutes July 19, 1939 | |