THE FAR SOUTH.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 97, 22 April 1909, Page 8

THE FAR SOUTH.

PROFESSOR DAVID'S INVESTI-

GATIONS

AUSTRALIA AND ANTARCTICA

[press association.]

SYDNEY, April 22. Speaking at the University welcome to the Antarctic explorers, Professor David said that the southern regions were found to be particularly rich in radio!aria. It was difficult to detect any difference between them and'!the radiolarian rocks lying between Bat hurst and Harden. One of tho'reasons that prompted him to join the expedition was a desire to work out his theory in connection Avith tho coal beds of New South Wales, which he presumed to be of the glacfal age, and although the biologist and pakeontogolist expedition had yet to perfect its researches, in his judgment strong support was adduced to the correctness of the theory. There appealed to be distinct "relations-.betw.een Antarctic uro and fossil forms of coal measures.

Speaking further of the similarity of both plant and animal life of Australia to that of South America, the Professor said that Antarctica was possibly the centre of migration for plants "and animals to both Continents, now so far apart.