SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL JOURNEYS 
By F. DresenuHAM, B.A., B.Sc., Assistant Geologist to the 
Expedition 
OWING to the early publication of this book before any of the 
material brought back has been examined, it is difficult to state 
the exact nature or importance of the geological results of the 
Expedition. 
A summary of the work done will perhaps to some extent 
indicate its scope. 
Of the three geologists accompanying the Expedition two 
were with the main party on Ross Island, Mr. T. Griffith Taylor 
and Mr. Frank Debenham. A third, Mr. Raymond E. Priestley, 
was with the Northern Party, stationed the first year at Cape 
Adare, the second in the Mt. Nansen region. 
It had been among Captain Scott’s original plans to maintain 
a geological party in the field during each sledging season, and 
this was carried out until the third season, when the Search Party 
took all available men. 
The special geological journeys from the main base at Cape 
Evans were as follows: 
In the autumn of 1911 a party of four, under Mr. Taylor, 
spent six weeks in the foothills of the Royal Society Range, ex- 
amining and surveying about eighty miles of coast line, including 
Dry Valley and the Ferrar and Koettlitz glaciers. Mr. C. S. 
Wright accompanied this party and studied ice phenomena under 
the most typical conditions. 
The next summer another geological party under Mr. Taylor 
spent three months on the coast to the north of McMurdo Sound, 
making their base at Granite Harbour. During this, probably 
the most comprehensive geological journey yet made in the 
South, a complete detailed survey of the coast and the hinterland 
was made both by theodolite and plane-table. 
The Mackay Glacier was ascended almost to its outfall from 
the plateau, and fossils associated with coal beds were found. 
