IN ANTARCTICA.
CABLE NEWS.
PROFESoOR DAVID’S STATE-
MENT.
SOUTHERN REGIONS RICH IN BADIOLARIA.
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<0 SYDNEY, April 22
Speaking at the University welcome to the Antarctic explorers, Professor David said the southern regions were found to be particularly rich in radiolaria. It was difficult to detect any difference between them and the radiola rian rocks lying between Bathurst and Harden. One of the reasons that prompted him to join the expedition ivas a desire to work out a theory in connection with the coal beds of Now South Wales, which he presumed to be of the glacial age, and although the biologist and palaeontologist of the expedition had yet to perfect the researches, in his judgment there was a strong deduction in support of the correctness of the theory that there appeared to be distinct relations between the Antarctic and fossil forms of coal measures. Speaking further of the similarity of both plant and animal life in Australia to that of South America, Professor David said that Antarctica was possibly a centre of migration for plants and animals to both continents, now so far apart.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2483, 23 April 1909, Page 5
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188IN ANTARCTICA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2483, 23 April 1909, Page 5
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