ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9425, 22 April 1909, Page 5

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR

DAVID

United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received April 22, 10.45, a.m Sydney, April 22.

Speaking at the University welcome to the Antarctic explorers, Processor David said the Southern regions were found to be particularly rich in radlolaria and it was difficult to detect any difference between them and the radiolarian rocks lying between Bathurst and Harden. One of the reasons thatjprompted him to join the expedition was the desire to work out the theorv connecting the coal beds of New South Wales, which he presumed to be of the glacial age, and although the biologist and ibalaeontologist of the expedition had not yet perfected his researches, in his judgment strong support had been adduced for the correctness of the theory. He said there appeared to he distinct relations between Antarctic life and the fossil forms of the coal measures. Speaking further of the similarity of both the plant and animal life of Australia to that of South America, the professor said that Antarctica wasjTpossibly the centre of migration for plants and animals to both continents which were now so far apart.