10 R. H. CAMBAGE. 



Taylor and Debenham ascertained that the ice of a large 

 outlet glacier draining the inland plateau moved in summer 

 at the rate of 80 feet per month. This is a lower rate than 

 that already ascertained for the movement of the Ross 

 Barrier as a whole, the rate of movement of the latter 

 being about, on the average, 120 feet per month. 



Mr. R. B. Priestley, the geologist in charge with 

 Lieutenant Campbell's party, in addition to discovering the 

 important specimens of fossil wood above referred to, has 

 accumulated a large amount of very valuable information 

 on the local ice barrier near Mount Nansen which was 

 formerly united to the Great Ice Barrier (or Ross Barrier). 

 He also led an expedition which succeeded in successfully 

 ascending Mount Erebus and was able to gain important 

 information, additional to that obtained by the members 

 of the Shackleton expedition, as to the existence of the 

 most powerful geyser known in the world to the north of 

 Mount Erebus on the southern slopes of the volcano of 

 Mount Bird. 



Mr. C. S. Wright, physicist to the expedition, brought 

 back from near the Oloudmaker mountain on the Beard- 

 more Glacier a fragment of limestone containing a small 

 but absolutely perfect and complete coral. This single 

 specimen will probably throw much light on the exact age 

 of these limestone beds. 



Glaciology, physiography and the general geology of the 

 Ross region of Antarctica will have greatly gained as a 

 result of the Scott expedition. 



In regard to meteorology, a summary has already been 

 given by my predecessor in this office, of Dr. Simpson's 

 investigations of the temperature, pressure and wind direc- 

 tions in the upper atmosphere near Mount Erebus up to 

 levels of nearly five miles. These observations, together 

 with the usual low level records, will have their value 



