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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION [June 
N.B. — Magnesium flashlight as signalling apparatus 
in the summer. 
Another crab-eater seal was secured to-day ; he had 
come up by the bergs. 
Monday, June 5. — The wind has been S. all day, sky 
overcast and air misty with snow crystals. The tempera- 
ture has gone steadily up and to-night rose to + 16 0 . 
Everything seems to threaten a blizzard which cometh 
not. But what is to be made of this extraordinary high 
temperature heaven only knows. Went for a walk over 
the rocks and found it very warm and muggy. 
Taylor gave us a paper on the Beardmore Glacier. He 
has taken pains to work up available information ; on the 
ice side he showed the very gradual gradient as compared 
with the Ferrar. If crevasses are as plentiful as reported, 
the motion of glacier must be very considerable. There 
seem to be three badly crevassed parts where the glacier is 
constricted and the fall is heavier. 
Geologically he explained the rocks found and the 
problems unsolved. The basement rocks, as to the 
north, appear to be reddish and grey granites and altered 
slate (possibly bearing fossils). The Cloudmaker appears 
to be diorite ; Mt. Buckley sedimentary. The suggested 
formation is of several layers of coal with sandstone 
above and below; interesting to find if it is so, and 
investigate coal. Wood fossil conifer appears to have 
come from this — better to get leaves — wrap fossils up 
for protection. 
Mt. Dawson described as pinkish limestone, with a 
wedge of dark rock ; this very doubtful ! Limestone is 
