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Note 1, p. 4.—Dogs. These included thirty-three sledging dogs and a collie bitch, ‘Lassie.’ The thirty-three, all Siberian dogs excepting the Esquimaux ‘Peary’ and ‘Borup,’ were collected by Mr. Meares, who drove them across Siberia to Vladivostok with the help of the dog-driver Demetri Gerof, whom he had engaged for the expedition. From Vladivostok, where he was joined by Lieutenant Wilfred Bruce, he brought them by steamer to Sydney, and thence to Lyttelton.

The dogs were the gift of various schools, as shown by the following list: