466 T. W. E. DAVID, W. F. SMEETH, AND J. A. SCHOFIELD. 
of Triassic Age. Three specimens are almost entirely foraminiferal 
limestones of a markedly tertiary facies. 
In 1893-94 the whaler Jason (Captain C. A. Larsen) visited 
' the north-western portion of Antarctica. The important discovery 
was made by Dr. Donald,! of Lower Tertiary rocks with the fossil 
shells Cucullea, Natica, and Cytherea, in situ at Cape Seymour. 
Fossil wood was also found imbedded in the Tertiary rocks ata 
level of three hundred feet above the sea. A new active volcano, 
named by Captain Larsen, Christensen Volcano, was discovered 
in latitude 65° 5’ S., longitude 58° 40’ W. On the sketch chart 
accompanying Captain Larsen’s paper, another active volcano, 
Sarsee,” is shown, also Lindenberg Volcano [extinct (?)], and the 
four Seal Islands, all of which are considered to be of volcanic 
origin, if not dormant or extinct volcanoes. 
We now come to the subject of the latest piece of Antarctic 
Exploration accomplished by Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink in the 
whaler Antarctic. 
The following account is partly taken from the Standard of 
2nd August, 1895, partly from notes kindly be us by Mr. 
Borchgrevink :— 
The Antarctic was well fortified for ice work, her timbers being 
nowhere less than three feet in thickness, and actually not less 
than nine feet thick at the bows. She sailed from Melbourne on 
the 20th September, 1894. Mr. H. J. Bull accompanied the 
expedition as manager of the Antarctic Whaling Company, and 
Mr. C. E. Borchgrevink finding that there was no room on board 
for him in the capacity of scientific collector, pluckily engaged 
himself as an ordinary seaman. The pack ice was sighted on the 
7th December, and on the following day the Antarctic was in 
latitude 58° 45’ S., longitude 171° 30’ E., and with vast streams 
of ice driving all around. When the Antarctic entered the pack 
ice the temperature of the air was 25° Fahr., and that of the water 
1 J. Murray—Geogr. Journ. Vol. ut., No. 1, Jan. 1894, pp. 10, 11. 
2 Geogr. Journ. 1894, rv., No. 4, p. 333. 
