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WITH SCOTT : THE SILVER LINING 



paleontological research on some Cambrian corals from Central 

 Australia. Among the specimens which Shackleton had 

 brought back from the farthest south rock was a small pebble 

 of green marble. In this were some minute fossils, and 

 they turned out to be the same " ancient-cups ' {Archeo- 

 cyathincs) as I had described in Cambridge. So this unique 

 specimen was handed over to me for description, and I was 

 able to tell our fellows the " habits " of the Beardmore corals. 



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These queer fossils seem to unite the characters of the 

 two great families of sponges and corals. They died out in 

 the Cambrian age, but are of world-wide destribution in 

 deposits of that period. 



I had drawn an enlarged map of the Beardmore, and I 

 read extracts from " The Heart of the Antarctic," describing 

 the position of the crevassed areas, etc. My next " old 

 master " was a fine effort — a sort of panorama of what you 



