OCEAN SURVEY WORK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11671, 11 April 1916, Page 8

OCEAN SURVEY WORK.

: I ADDRESSES BY CARNEGIE'S ,il OFFICERS. w ■:: ;£QsptanvJ. Ault and oilier members iffiHthe, 1 Carnegie magnotio survey ship |»Te,brief addresses at the Canterbury CWlege last .evening on the •work of the '*" se&nt-voyage.- There was a large at- : Iwndance. president of the Philo- ■ '' ti&phical'-' Institute' of Canterbury, un- • ' whose auspices the addresses were '. fPY'ek,, was, the chairman, and in a brief ', la&rouuotory speech welcomed-Captain _• Anlt and his colleagues, and paid a .'. tribute to'-tie value of their reoent in--V «stigations.' ' . ;&The'' party from the Carnegie imdudeS, besides Captain Ault, command.&.*and'- superintendent, Dr Edmonds, :-.'jflfidical officer and observer; Messrs ' v ■ Jjohnson, Luke, Loring and Meisen- ' '/lielter, observers; and Mr Parkinson, - * lierrestrial observer. ;'" 'Ault briefly recapitulated % tho ■ - tmjects ■of the Carnegie Institution, '.-watch'; he-said, had been endowed by . M?.-A.' Carnegie with about five milu '.boil pounds, for research purposes maint& Since the "beginning of 1905 par!S all parts of the world. i .^ean'survey work.was begun in 1905 ' t , aiidinl9Q9 the Carnegie began her sur- '-" ijwypyag* B ' Most °f tne metal in her ■ J '=*»& non-magnetic- The vessel had no V- wviations except those allowed for. - ''JlHo'.iutd been called tho most unatvessel afloat, oven the seamen ;'•■>'jpning long-whiskers. (Laughter:) The ~'.?\ of the Carnegie totalled about :*B5p;000' miles. The lecturer traced the -I" watiQUSs'cruises on the map, from'the l i > : ;»rdtio to tiie Antarctic, and touched --';\sj£he''reoent voyage of the Carnegie •* tftfHhe, lines previously published in the : " Times." He described the 'T.yafiatiQn'of the compass, and emphrtVVpuid*thV importance of the work to The moro they inquired the-investigations of Cook, Ross. ;,;';«oi'other explorers, the more their for those men. r.*'*&Yfewß were screened of South and King Edward's Cove, the -'-J "whaling industry also being pictoriallv '- Captain Ault discoursed 'i' : dS^the"problem as to whether Lindsey < J ~IO was Bouvet, and said that errors could bo excused, but '/"'tliqse of "latitude were less easy to unj.Vddrstand. The need for more magnetic had been clearly proved. Hal- '• " Fly? who bad charge of the first expe--VrJjiioii,;in tho eighteenth century, had "\j&- chronometers, and was frequently )V-oa£ in" his 'reckoning from 300 to 500 Venules; * With the aid of modern instni- ;! Intents the terrestrial regions need only •-1 seiyisible for about twenty-five minutes to be taken. Only once was V'toeJßarnegie's reckoning proved to be V wroij'g.'. In conclusion, Captain Ault -paid a high tribute to his fellow-offi-'.C'cggfs-and'all .members of tho party fbiv v'-theiPv loyalty and services i<endcred. .- Johnson described the instruments • Valid ■ apparatus*, used for taking atV jao&ph'erjc, observations, after which exhibited many o'f the inpayments'used, during the recent voyand"explained their, uses. Parkinson said that the land V" work had been mainly confined to those where' 'the Governments had 'i'aioi-undertaken magnetic.survey work. Arctic and tour Antarctic expedi-tions-had been.assisted. .Ho had, dur- <\ iKg the past .months, been working in 1 -' Australia, where the investi:Vgatibns were carried out despite many ;'-obsfcwleV The party motored through •*£tcsfcks;i.across swamps and shallow flakes...-On reaching the north, ho stay"^£4?at " a Presbyterian mission near' Vt Derby.-- In the, district could be seen .' j , L sbjft : Australian aboriginals at their sVfljwJst.- Cannibalism was openly prac£?tMjed,Sand the'missionaries seemed to '■- ifcafe hopeless material to work on. Mr -.Barkinson 1 next'described visits to New v'i'lCSaKdonia, .New.' Hebrides, and other i~ idjacent islands, and said that the f*\ Bittives of the Solomon Islands were >~vifce:-'wttdest-of any in the "Western Pki 'HBe.'-.''He -had travelled over 30,000 XmUes.during-these investigations. "* "yeSßr^rarr, 5 in-mbving a vote of thanks Ault* and his colleagues, i 'Mjd.that' the occasion was memorable. '"» Se/raniembered when the first CarneGalilee, called in JSPL ' At that'-jtune Sir Ernest ShackleK ~ ton ".was at .Lyttelton. Now tlie Caraewas here and tho Aurora was at .'■*-'* Srafiiedin. The circumstances were not i- ; Sesame/but all hoped that Sir Ernest '< : V9S safe io the Antarctic. The Carne- > *&i lnstitute was carrying .out valuable ■ 'v-work- throughout "the world. It was t v ,- t jid'-Becret-.that many people thought '■K'tiHe Carnegie would not return, bhe not a polar ship, but had gone L ' * nearer' the Pole > than any similarlyl .< H^ilt-vessel. .The real use of magnetic V-' observation was the obtaining of a cor-, f * teefc drawing of the earth's magnetism. ■: didvnot know the real causes of -•Hie.earth's magnetism, and it was first * : - -necessary to find out what this mag-";'-"S«tism was.' Professor Farr described : - magnetic survey expedi>jfcions. around south of Now Zea- ' lana,-and commented humorously on ■'• 'ifie 'delay in the nublication of the re- .'■■; ifults of the New Zealand magnetic sur- -.' "f motion was • carried with accla- - motion. ' _ ~ . ... acknowledgment, Captain Ault '. expressed his thanks, and invited the - - .members of the institute to visit the v "' Carnegie at Lyttelton on Friday next.