ANTARCTICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18762, 16 January 1923, Page 4

ANTARCTICA

SOLUTION OF ITS PROBLEMS. LECTURE* BY SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 15. Sir Douglas Muwsou lectured to-night at the Town Hall under the auspices of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, his subject being "Antarctica.” The ball was crowded to the doors, and the lecturer had a most flattering reception. During tho course of his lecture ho said that, in common with every other region of the world, the great Antarctic zone held data pf vital importance to science in the solution of its problems. If, therefore, a general advance of scienlific inquiry was to go forward unhampered, investigation of at least the broader aspects of Antarctic research must proceed hand in hand with the march of scientific inquiry in other lands, so that, apart from exploring the economic possibilities, and apart from the achievement of being the first to reach the Polo, the prosecution of purely scientific investigation in that region was very desirable so far as opportunity and financial consideration would allow, The ileotwre 'was profusely illustrated by slides and films depicting the topography of the country, wad its h-e fields and ice fines, tho bird c"d animal life in the Antnrcfio and sub-rt.utarctic, and the penguin pictures being especially popular. At the close, of tho lecture Sir Douglas Mawson received a great ovation.