32 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS — SIXTION 1;. 



embraced has its own wealth of journals that distribute such 

 knowledge periodically. 



My work, for many years past, has led me into those 

 distant parts of the country in which occur large terrains of 

 rocks of the Karroo System and their associated coal deposits — 

 areas that make up nearly one-third of the whole of Southern 

 Rhodesia. In these solitudes the geological problems that are 

 suggested by the mountain ranges, river gorges and rolling 

 plains of the varied scenery constantly appeal to one's reasoning 

 powers, and it is to some of these problems that I wish to draw 

 your attention to-day. 



I should like, at the outset, to deal with two matters that 

 lire appropriate to the subject of my address, the first being the 

 establishment, in Rhodesia, of a geological survey, and the 

 provision for similar field work in the Mozambique province of 

 Portuguese East Africa. Nyassaland has already been geologi- 

 cally mapped by Messrs. Andrew and Bailey in 1908, while, 

 thanks to Mr. F. E. Studt, the rock systems of the Katanga 

 or south-east corner of the Congo State have been worked out 

 in much detail. 



Important geological research is thus Ijeing extended around 

 us, and soon we may hope to understand the intricacies of the 

 metamorphic rocks and their relationship to those of the neigh- 

 bouring states. Rhodesia is to be congratulated on obtaining 

 the services of Mr. H. B. Maufe as the Director of its Survey, 

 for his research among the arch?ean rocks and work on the 

 Geological .Survey of Scotland, and his experience of African 

 conditions in Uganda, stamp him as one thoroughly capable of 

 handling the problems of Rhodesian geology. 



As geographers we are probably giving some attention to 

 what has inaptly been called the " race for the South Pole," 

 now in full gallop. \\'ithin the Antarctic Circle, partly walled 

 in by an almost continuous barrier of ice, lies a great land mass 

 of elevated plateaux of an area of some 5,000,000 square miles. 

 With the discovery of the North Pole Arctic exploration lost 

 much of its relish, and noted leaders are now engaged in attempts 

 to reach the centre of the southern continent. By some arrange- 

 ment this was divided into four. Captain Scott being allotted the 

 Victoria Quadrant, or from 90° to 180° East Longitude, the 

 Germans taking those east and west of the Greenwich Meridian, 

 known as the Enderby and Weddell Quadrants. Dr. Mawson's 

 projected Australian Antarctic Expedition will also operate in 

 Scott's quadrant. 



Captain Scott has already arrived at Cape Evans and estab- 

 hshed winter quarters there. 



Depots are now being laid down by him along the land route 

 for use in the great attempt to reach the Pole next summer. 

 These results we cannot hear until well into our next winter, 

 yet we may feel assured that every resource of the gallant party 

 will be taxed in order to secure success. The German ship 



