FOR THE ANTARCTIC

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11651, 16 October 1923, Page 5

FOR THE ANTARCTIC

AMERICAN SCIENCE PARTY. TWO YEARS’ CRUISE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 15, 7.40 u.m.) NEW YORK, October 14. A message from New London, in Connecticut, says that the Blossom, a three-masted schooner, under the command of George Simmons, a wellknown scientist, whose staff numbers 16 biologists and geologists, will shortly start on a two years’ cruise ot the Antarctic islands, for the purpose of collecting specimens for tho Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The scientists will make a special study of the flora and fauna of tho South Atlantic regions, which hitherto have been rarely visited, save by hunters, whose accounts are considered romantic but unreliable. The Blossom will also visit tho islands on the West African coast, restocking at Capetown, and shipping home the specimens cob lected.