NO ROOM FOR COOK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 7

NO ROOM FOR COOK.

. . PEARY'S. ATTITUDE. , WOULD: NOT AID~mS RIVAL'S CLAIM; ARCTIC AMENITIES. 'By . Tcl6graph-Prbes jAssociatibn—^Copyright.) - Nev/ York, September 27. • , Comnwnder; Peary;, justifies. his ,^to., ilow .what ho palls - '"Cook's, stud" pit board ho/Roosevelt, stating that ho - was .awaro of !ook'S;intcntiins to-olajln that ho had-roiiched ho .Polo,'and.was dqtermlnp4'not ;to aid liis •rojoct. ' ■ '-'V; ; : ifj-.'Whitney states that Dr. Cook ltncw that relief: chip Was north,' but ..owing -to. : ho-straiiiou .relatiopsywith- Co'ip'.mbidijr ! I?eary 1 iipiPreforrod' hot ; 1 to wajt for' the- relief ship, iut:tb;go to tho Danish settlements, i- ■ (Dr; Cookvit.. was 'previously stated, left his t ecords ftt Utah, in-North'Greenlandi for directjiipmont to' America,, ,He' himself - travelled outhi . priwilmably' by ■ sledge, - from - North Ircenkild to tho Danish port- of Upornavilt, on ,11 -island off tho Greenland coast.'.' lavik,. he .-boatded. the Danish. steamer llans 3gcdo, and,.proceeded to Copenhagen via' Lcr- : rick (Shetland 'Islands),, This'plan of , sending lis: records 1 ono way, ■ and, coming by-, (mother, ■ •oute'.himself- was adversely-,criti<;i?ed.' , In oply it wa9:6ilggostod that Dr. Cqpk equld: not)o expected to risk his instTumcp&'.aiiu relords ■■ on the .'sledge jotimoy to Upern&vik.it ii\S Bince been stated-owl. is -libw .admitted ly fcary-rthat "Cook's stuff'.', was refused idmittdnco oil the Roosevelt, as probably- its iiyiier would hayO : been had' ho not' taken |ho Danish route.] ; ' ■ . . v . . TROPICAL FOSSIL REMAINS IN ;THE..; y f ARCTIC. ANIMALS; VEGETATION, COAL, i ■■: '-New :.York,. September 27. Professor MlMilUn, who accompanied ComBiahdor Peary's Polar oxpedition, states that ho found a'hUge roeV: split'' °pon : by- frost bearing, a perfect: imprint pf. a; great, tropical Ecrn, and also ■tlio "peWflcd stump of a trco 18 inches dianieter.:, ; : ; : . Fossil remains of tropical animals wcjro found hear' Blhck' Cape. , In. latitmlb 81. degrees N. fine coal seams-wore locatedi ■ -. OPINION OF PROFESSOR THOMAS. A WARM ' CLIMATE - ONCE PREVAILED. - - Illy Trlegraph—l'fcsa AsßdctaUonJ Auckland, : September 28. Professor A; IVW. 'rhomas, when interviewed to-dav on tho reported discoveries of Professor MacMillan ih the North Polar region's, . remarked that' hlthougli toothing had Ijcen: heard hitherto of tho discovery 'of indications 'of tropical plant- end onlrtal life in those teginus, tho discoveries of reboot : years "had steftdily, pointed in the direction; of showing 'that, round the Polar regions, 'A warm climato'formerly prevailed.:■:Coal; i .bedS'lia(j been' found in Greenland: while,- in SplUbergen, there' jjere ■ cortain ovidencos of a former temperate climate. It wasi. perfectly;'certain .;(hat the distribution of heat and lifo'wbs quite different in' former times from: what it is at present. "Of; course,", added I?rofeSs'or TfyomoS, f'nothing has; been stated'as to tho'proliablo age of these; deposits, but tropical; plant,arid- animal growth - is spoken of, and,iitake, it.to,njcan (judging frolli the '.amount'.bf-. information: nvail.able). that the deposits were, found in beds of tho early Tertiary per(od, which would take us back perhaps i.OOa.WO years." ' '. ■ . Speaking, on the liypothoses for such a complete change', of terrestrial climatic" conditions, Professor Thomas' said that the gradual shift'lng .of-the:garth's: axis' would account for a cbmplete'revolution in climate; and, in support' of the hypothesis of axial-deviation, there wero evidences to'.' bo'-' found . still further ; backstrong evidences of d glaciation at opo time pf the. equatorial regions in 1 India,. New South .Wales, Victoria, and in Africa. "That," remarked the professori "agress in pointing to a revolution of clibiate'r but. 'J'.tako. it that .this -pattioular discovery .in latitude" 81 ' coiiccrns -de-; posits hot;cohtempol-aneouß-,with tho glaciatiori' .f have.jU6t refbtred to. With regard to this discovery, it is 'worthy -of note that in Europe generally evidences, point, to a much warmer 'climato in early; Tertiary times. ■ Wo get a • sub:tropical flora even in' England.' There is,. Of course, the: theory that tho temperature, of tho enrlli was at':oncp time u'arnier-through-out— an increase'of. heat, affected:; by extraterrestrial causes, shch,:for.'.instarice, as the increased : power of., the- 6Un,;' ,Up,. in? those latitudes: there hivo' bben. previously found evi-dences-of an abundant growth 1 of;.trees, willows, and oaks—even ,palins : have been foundbut this particular discovery: is. more likely to strengthen tho, hypothesis; that the ohango of climate has been due to a' bh&ngo of axis,: for were'it attributable to thb.heat of tho sun having beeh so much greater at a-fifiio when vegetable and animal life wete existing /.on the earth', : it .would. mean that- the-other parts rof I tho.oai'th would bo subjectedto .such .intense I.heat as., to : rfinder. all save';the-I'oles ,uninhabitabjo^''-' , :.V - -" 1 -' ? "