SOUTH WITH MAWSON

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 12

SOUTH WITH MAWSON

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION THE SCIENTIFIC STAFF The personnel of the scientific section of the expedition which Sir Douglas Mawson will lead to the Antarctic at the end of this year was announced recently by Sir George Pearce, chairman of the Federal committee which is directing arrangements. Those selected are. Medical Officer.—Dr. W. Wilson Ingram, of Sydney. Zoologists.—Professor Harvey Johnston, of the Adelaide University.; Mr. H. O Fletcher, of the staff of the Australian Museum, Sydney; and Mr. Falla, of New Zealand. i t <at„„ Chemist.—Mr. A. Howard, of Stanhope Grove. Camberwell. Plankton Specialist.—Mr. W. Marr. Meteorologist.—Mr. R. G. Simmers, of the New Zealand Government Meteorological Department, Wellington. Survey Officer. —Instructor-Commander H. Moyes, of the Royal Australian Navy. Echo-sounding Specialist and Wireless Officer. —Petty-Officer Williams, of the Royal Navy. . Photographer and Kinematographev.— Mr. Frank Hurley. Pilot.—Flying-Officer S. A. C. Campbell, of the Royal Australian Air Force. The selection of the second airman has not yet been made. If it is possible to find the necessary accommodation another physicist will be included in the party. Mr. Howard, who is aged only 23 years, is a graduate of the Melbourne University where he studied chemistry under Dr.'A. C. D. Rivett and later under Professor E. J. Hartung. In March of last year he graduated as a master of science, and since then he has been engaged in research work in the chemistry department at the university. A few weeks ago Mr. Howard left for London, where he will inquire into special methods of investigation for his oceanographic work with the expedition. Mr. W. Marr was a member of the permanent scientific staff on the Discovery while the vessel was for whaling research work around the L alkland Islands. He is regarded as one of the world’s authorities on plankton. Professor Johnston, who will be the senior zoologist, was scientific controller of the Commonwealth prickly pear investigations conducted in New South Wales and Queensland. He was awarded the Syme research medal and prize by the University of Melbourne. In Adelaide he has occupied the position of honorary curator of helminthology in the South Australian Museum. When Professor F. Wood Jones left Adelaide the Royal Society of South Australia elected Professor Johnston as his successor to represent the society on the public library board. , , r Sir. Fletcher will be one of the assistant zoologists, and he will have special duties in taxidermy. Mr. Falla, who was nominated by the New Zealand Government, will be the second assistant zoologist. He will specialise in ornithologv and taxidermy. Mr. Falla has had considerable experience in zoological expeditions in the neighbo’ rhood of New Zealand. Instructor-Commander H. Moyes, wi , is aged 44 years, was a member of Sir Douglas Mawson’s previous expedition. He is stationed at Garden Island. Sydney. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in February. 1914, as an instructor at the Jervis Bay Naval Collet He was later transferred to the. sea-going service, and he is now the senior instructor of the Royal Australian Navy. Mr. Frank Hurley has had a most adventurous career. He accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton to the Antarctic in the Endurance, and was photographer with Sir Douglas Mawson’s last expedition. In addition to his Polar experiences, Mr. Hurley has journeyed into the tropics, and his films of New Guinea are well known. He has done much flying, and during the Great War he was engaged in taking aerial photographs of the battlefields. There are few parts of the world into which he has not ventured in search of photographs. Flying-Officer Campbell will pilot one of the two Moth seaplanes which will be carried by the Discovery for short survey flights in the Antarctic. Flying-Offi-cer Campbell is aged 26 years, and is a bachelor of engineering of the Sydney University. He is attached to the 101 flight on the seaplane carrier Albatross, and was previously engaged in aerial photogranhic survey work on the Great Barrier Reef. Dr. Wilson Ingram, who is in private practice in Sydney, graduated M.B. with honours at the University of Aberdeen. He has a distinguished war career, having been one of the “Old Contemptibles.” Sir Douglas Mawson announced that the members of the Australian Antarctic Expedition would leave by the Blue Funnel liner Nestor on September 18. They would go to Cape Town nnd there join the Discovery, which Captain J. K. Davis would bring from London. The vessel would then no direct to the Antarctic.