SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



I have given a fairly full description of these moraines 

 because their characteristics are interesting, and they are a 

 duplicate of those we afterwards examined in the north- 

 eastern fork of the Ferrar Glacier, to which Captain 

 Scott gave the name of Dry Valley. In describing the 

 latter I wish to pay particular attention to the raised 

 beach there. 



Specimens of moss, fungus and alga were secured, as 

 also numerous specimens of a peculiar rotifer living in the 

 lakes, but a striking feature of the life of the moraines 

 was the absence of any type of lichen. 



The Dry Valley of New Harbour 



It was originally intended that a sledge-party of three 

 should make an exhaustive examination of the area which 

 was originally occupied by the north-eastern arm of the 

 Ferrar Glacier, but from which the ice has at present re- 

 treated, and which is now covered by a thick deposit of 

 morainic debris. The plans were, however, decidedly 

 modified through the Northern Party failing to return to 

 Butter Point, and our operations being much restricted 

 by our orders, we were unfortunately unable to spend 

 more than two days in the Valley. On January 12 we 

 left Butter Point for New Harbour, and reached our 

 objective at 6 p.m. the same day. 



The 13th and 14th were spent examining the moraines, 

 and on the 15th we returned to our permanent camping- 

 place at the Point, and resumed our wait for the Northern 

 Party. 



We had hardly been on shore half an hour when 

 Armytage picked up some fragments of Pecten colhecM, 

 the shell of a mollusc, which is still found living on the 

 sea-floor at Back Door Bay. Encouraged by this find 

 we devoted all our energies towards making similar dis- 



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