ANTARCTICA AND AUSTRALASIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 74, 23 April 1909, Page 3

ANTARCTICA AND AUSTRALASIA

PROFESSOR DAVID'S THEORY. Sydney, April 22. Speaking at the Uiiiversiiv welcome to the Antarctic explorers, Professor David saiil that in the southern regions he found particularly rich radiolaria, and that it was difficult to detect any difference between them and the radiolarian rocks lving between Uathiirstand Harden. One of the reasons that prompted him to join the expedition was a desire to work out a theory in connection with the coal beds of' New South Wales, which he presumed to be of the glacial age. And although vac biologist and ■paelacontologist of the expedition had yet to perfect their researches, in his 'judgment a strong support had been adduced of the correctness of his theory. There appeared to be distinct relations between the Antarctic life and the fossil forms of coal measure:-. Speaking further of the similarity of both plant and animal life in Australia to that of South America, the Professor said that Antarctica was probably the centre of migration for plants and animals to both continents which were now so far apart.