SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL JOURNEYS 
By F. Debenham, B.A., B.Sc, Assistant Geologist to 
tlic Expedition 
Owing to the early publication of this book before any of 
the material brought back has been examined, it is difiicult 
to state the exact nature or importance of the geological 
results of the Expedition. 
A summary of the work done will perhaps to some 
extent indicate its scope. 
Of the tlirec geologists accompanying the Expedition 
two were with the main party on Ross Island, Mr. T. 
Griffith Taylor and Mr. Frank Debenham. A third, 
Mr. Raymond E. Priestley, was with the Northern Party, 
stationed tlie first year at Cape Adarc, tlie second in the 
Mt. Nansen region. 
It had been among Captain Scott's original plans to 
maintain a geological party in the field during each 
sledging season, and this was carried out until the third 
season, when the Search Party took all available men. 
The special geological journeys from the main base 
at Cape Evans were as follows : 
In the autumn of 191 1 a party of four, under Mr. 
Taylor, spent six weeks in the foothills of the Royal 
Society Range, examining and surveying about eighty 
