Sir Douglas Mawson is professor of geology and mineralogy 

 in the University of Adelaide. In 1903 he visited the New Hebrides, 

 publishing a preliminary note on the geology of that group {Rept. 

 Australasian Assn. for the Advancement of Set., Vol. 10, 1904). Later 

 he was appointed to the scientific staff of the British Antarctic 

 Expedition, 1907-1909, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. On this ex- 

 pedition he reached the south magnetic pole with Sir T. W. Edge- 

 worth David and A. F. Mackay and was one of the members of the 

 party to climb Mt. Erebus. He subsequently became the leader of 

 the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. To the scientific 

 reports of this expedition he has contributed " Records of the Aurora 

 Polaris" and has also published the general narrative entitled "The 

 Home of the Blizzard," London, 1915. Prior to the expedition he 

 had discussed in an article in the Geographical Journal (\'ol. 37, 191 1) 

 various hypotheses as to the structure of the Antarctic Continent, 

 and after its return he summarized the scientific results in the same 

 periodical (Vol. 44, 1914). 



