THE NIMROD EXPEDITION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14976, 23 April 1909, Page 7

THE NIMROD EXPEDITION.

SPEECH BY PROFESSOR DAVID. THE LESSONS OF THE COAL MEASURES. United Press Association—By Elcotrio Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 22. Speaking at tho University welcome to tho Antarctic explorers Professor David said that the southern regions were found particularly rich in radio laria. It "was difficult to detect any difference between them and tho radinlarian rocks lying between Bathurst and Harden. One of the reasons thatprompted him to join tho expedition was a desiro to work out the theo r y of the connection of tho coal beds of New South Wales, which wero presumed to bo of glacial ago, and although the biologist and palaeontologist of tho expedition had yet to perfect his researches, in hia judgment strong support was adduced of the correctness of tho theory. There appeared to bo distinct relations between the Antarctic lifo and tho fossil forms of tho coal measures. Speaking further of the similarity of both the plant and animal lifo of Australia to that of South America, tho professor said that Antarctica was possibly tho coutro of migration for plants and animals to both tho continents, which wore now so far apart.