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positions of the former craters or calderas and of the 
fumerole areas were carefully mapped and much of the 
former history of the volcano ascertained. 
In the Northern Party, stationed at Cape Adare for 
the first season, a journey chiefly geographical and 
geological was made along the coastline to the west. 
Owing to unfavourable ice-conditions the party was not 
able to go very far, but Mr. Priestley was able to make 
a comprehensive collection of the slates and schists of 
the region, supplemented in the summer by the recent 
lavas of Cape Adare itself. 
In the succeeding year, being landed by the ship at 
Evans Coves, the same party made a journey into entirely 
new country in tlie neighbourhood of Mt. Melbourne and 
obtained further fossil evidence from the Great Beacon 
Sandstone Series. 
Throughout his journeys Mr. Priestley made a special 
study of local ice conditions which together with Mr. 
Wright's work with the main party will furnisli a very 
complete report on ice phenomena in the Antarctic. 
From tliis summary it will be seen that the geological 
work of the Expedition was particularly comprehensive 
and was one of the chief items in the scientific syllabus 
of the Expedition. The mass of material brought back 
will be worked up and published in a special Geological 
Report, 
