STUDIES IN ARCTIC
AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIST
MEMBER OF AUSTRIAN PARTY LONDON. Juno '2O Air. A. J. Marshall, of Sydney, will go to the Arctic on July 5 as zoologist and ornithologist with an Austrian University Expedition, which will visit Spitsbergen, going northward to the edge of the pack ice and probably reaching within 500 or 600 miles of tho Pole.
Air. Marshall is taking an ultraviolet ray apparatus, provided by Oxford University, in order to study tho effect of ultra-violet rays in the Arctic summer on the breeding and migration of birds. The scientist is anxious to investigate the turnstones, sanderlings and other waders which breed at Spitzbergen as well as in Northern Siberia in the Arctic summer, and migrate to Australia during the northern winter. Ho has accordingly accepted this invitation instead of going to Greenland with tho Russian biologist, AI. Polinin.
Mr. Marshall will return at the end of three months, and will tlien organise an Oxford expedition to New Guinea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22769, 1 July 1937, Page 12
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