STUDY ARCTIC BIRDS.
SYDNEY MAN WITH AUSTRIANS
LONDON", June 19.
Mr. A. J. Marshall, of Sydney, will go to the Arctic on July 5 as zoologist and ornithologist with an Austrian university expedition which will visit Spitzbergen, going northward to the edge of the pack ice and probably reaching within 500 or 600 miles of the Pole.
Mr. Marshall is taking an ultra-violet ray apparatus, provided by Oxford University, to study the effect of ultraviolet rays in the Arctic summer on breeding and migrations of birds.
He is most anxious to investigate turnstones, sanderlings, and other waders which breed at Spitzbergen and Northern Siberia in the Arctic summer and migrate to Australia during- the northern winter. He has accordingly accepted this invitation instead of going to Greenland with the Russian biologist, M. Polinin.
Mr. Marshall will return at the end of three months, and will then organise an Oxford expedition to New Guinea.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 9
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