ANTARCTICA

Evening Star, Issue 14040, 22 April 1909, Page 6

ANTARCTICA

ADDRESS. BY PROFESSOR DAVID. AN INTERESTING THEORY. Press Association—By Telegrapn-^Copyright SYDNEY, April 23. (Received April 22, at 10.45 a.m.) Speaking at the University welcome to the Antarctic explorers, Professor David said that the Southern regions were found to be particularly rich in radiolaria. It was difficult, he said, to datect any difference between them and the radiolarian rocks lying between Bathurst and Harden. One of the reasons that prompted him to join the expedition was the desire to work out a theory in connection with the coal beds of New South Wales, which were presumed to be of the glacial age. Although the biologist and palaeontologist of the expedition had yet to perfect their researches, in his judgment strong support had been adduced of the correctness of his theory. There appeared to te d'V tinct relations between Antarctic life and the fossil forms of the New South Wales coal measures. Speaking further rf the similarity of both the plant and .uurm.l life of Australia to that of South America, the professor said that Antarctica was possibly the centre of migration for the plants and animals to both these continents that now were so far apart.