THE POLAR EXPEDITION
Mr J. Allan Thomson, who was to have accompanied Captain Scott’s expedition as a geologist, has been obliged to give up the idea, owing to ill-health. A Sydney cablegram states that Mr Priestly, one of the geologists in Sir K. Shad leton’s expelition, who accompanies Captain Scott, is leaving Sydney on Saturday. It is understood (states a Christchurch telegram) that Mr Priestly's appointment as one of the geologists te the Antarctic cxpecition was due to the recommendation of Professor David, of Sydney. Ho fakes the place of Mr J. Allan Thomson. When Mr Thomson asked to bo released, Captain Scott communicated by cable with Professor David., and also consulted Sir Joseph Ward, who offered no objection to an Australian taking tho place of a New Zealander. Mr Priestly has been working with Professor David since the return of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition, preparing the geological results for publication.
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Evening Star, Issue 14513, 3 November 1910, Page 4
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151THE POLAR EXPEDITION Evening Star, Issue 14513, 3 November 1910, Page 4
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