ANTARCTIC PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5

ANTARCTIC PARTY.

A GENERAL MOVE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. London, Juno 28. Further arrangements in connection with the British Antarctic expedition under Captain Scott aro announced. Mr. Bruce goes to Vladivostok, where ho joins Mr. C. H. Mears in the work of collecting dogs and ponies. They will reach Kobo (Japan) on August 0, and proceed thence to New Zealand. Mr. Day, with motor sledges, leaves England on August ■(. Mr. Wyatt goes to New Zealand, via New York, where he will secure three Eskimo dogs that were with Peary's expedition to the North Pole.

THE GEOLOGIST ARRIVES. Mr. T. G. Taylor. 8.A., B.Sc., who is to accompany Captain Scott's expedition to tho Antarctic as geologist, arrived in Melbourno fast week. Mr. Taylor («iys an Australian paper) received the, greater part of his education in Sydney, where he arrived when only a child. He studied geology and oilier subjects at the Sydney University, under Professor David, and then proceeded to Cambridge. His career at the English University was an eminently successful one, and, as a result of his researches into the glacial geology of tho Swiss Alps, tho University authorities recommended that lie should accompany Captain Scott's expedition to studv the glacial conditions in the Antarctic. In the course of a brief interview Mr. Taylor said his investigations in Europe in the Alris showed that Micro w;as littlo doubt that many thousand years .ago, perhaps 20,000, tho s.tjuo conditions prevailed in Europe as now obtain in tht- Antarctic. All the huge passes, rivers, and gorges in Switzerland, and the soils of Central Europe bore evidences of having passed through the Too Age. The subject iva.s at pivscnl occupying a great ileal of attention in scientific circles in Europe, and ho was going, with the expedition to prosecute his investigations, and to discover how the geological features of Europe, and Antarctica compared.