THE FOSSILS COLLECTED 
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miles of coast line, including Dry Valley and the Ferrar 
and Koettlitz Glaciers. Mr. C. S. Wright accompanied 
this party and studied ice phenomena under the most 
typical conditions. 
The next summer another geological party under Mr. 
Taylor spent three months on the coast to the north of 
McMurdo Sound, making their base at Granite Harbour. 
During this, probably the most comprehensive geological 
journey yet made in the South, a complete detailed 
survey of the coast and the hinterland was made both 
by theodolite and plane table. 
The Mackay Glacier was ascended almost to its outfall 
from the plateau, and fossils associated with coal beds 
were found. A complete physiographic study of the 
region was made by Mr. Taylor and some important 
measurements of glacier movement taken. 
At the same time geological collections were being 
made on the Beardmore Glacier by various parties. 
The notes made by Dr. Wilson and the specimens collected 
by him and by Lieutenant Bowers are perhaps the most 
important of all the geological results. 
The plant fossils collected by this party are the best 
preserved of any yet found in this quadrant of the 
Antarctic and are of the character best suited to settle 
a long-standing controversy between geologists as to 
the nature of the former union between Antarctica and 
Australasia. 
In December of 1912 a party of six under Mr. Priestley 
ascended Mt. Erebus by a new route and spent a fort- 
night on the upper slopes collecting and surveying. The 
