Show TO EXPLORE A NEW CONTINENT K y Scottish Expedition to the A Antarctic ta to to Start Next Summer 1 j rie ne of the busiest men in Scotland land t p present is W. W S S. S Bruce the scientist iio ho o is ot lea lea-i the Scottish Antarctic edition which starts next summer he Je e expedition was Mr Bruce's own lea leap and he is now new engaged in planning f lout out O to the last de detail detail detail-a tan tan-a a business comes readily to his hand f for fori r rt i t al already has made four trips to the I circle in in the interests ts of f sc science science ence n 3 one oneto to the Antarctic The rii lie Scottish expedition which hI bly will start for the Antarctic next gust and the funds tot lor which have hav een sen subscribed by Sir John hn Murray hd hd id other rich will work in with with the three expeditions ready in th the Antarctic the Antarctic the British edish and the German leaders of ot the parties h having ving been In corre- corre and selected their respective ids elds of ot activity so that the results of ot ch one will supplement those of ot the there hers The Bruce Druce party expects to pend penda enda a year at least least and and three if Jf t they y yin in get the mone money money money-in in in the Antarctic i principally 1 In the Weddell se sea Region about which practically noth- noth ig g is known having ing been visited by one explorer and that eig o The Weddell sea lies between the theion theon glon ion on in which the German expedition to io work and that which the leaders the Swedish explorers have chosen The he Scotch expedition will sail sall on onard rd ard rd the ship Ilecia Hecla formerly a Nor- Nor egian whaler which will be fitted up upI I f the Clyde under the eye of ot G. G L. L itson the builder of Shamrock II po o is taking a keen Interest in the quest On board of oC the Hecla Heels i tre ere re will be seven other scientific men ich h of oC whom will wUl be in charge of ot a afferent branch of Investigation and 11 ty men to work the ship ne of the chief objects of these ad- ad is to discover if possible the which is supposed to exist und the south pole and which is be- be Ved ed to lie be e almost ost as ris as large as the I ted States This district t no noman man man has haser er gr r entered The Ice he of the Southern ean an also will be carefully studied It luite hulte different from that of the arctic ne ne The Icebergs eb of the Antarctic are uncommon formation too They Ther are Immense size and the flat fiat top which characteristic of ot them seems to point I. I their having been produced by gla- gla rs ejected from a flat fiat tract of ot land bably the mysterious continent Mr 1 uces uce's principal work will be that in ilch he was wa engaged when In the tic with the Jackson Jackson-Harmsworth and that organized by the I Ince flee of ot Monaco who spends his reve- reve from efrom the table at Monte 1 Carlo on I research research chiefly chiefly deep sea The waters of the Antarctic to be well populated by the theBy themy theny ny my By tribe but little Is known about Ur r r habits Whales seals and the r ms t s of the region will have their ways wa-'s ylie lle looked Into too The oceans ocean's bed 19 its waters will be studied and sam- sam samI I of f both examined under the mi- mi The geologist also will have hand full Lull Scientists are eager to iw w n. n more e about the e e earths earth's u hs h's crust and cite V ine WIT Antarctic circle the they they fancy ancy win will reveal some ln in in- in resting things It is somewhat more Ian an a a. surmise that centuries ago the theof of the thc southern regions of ot the ith was mild even tropical and a tidy udy of the he strata of ot the soil ROn f for r traces and lit itt vegetable life Ilfe should relit re- re ind In SOme Illuminating discoveries 1 the and ano weather will not be neglect- neglect COurse of the expeditions expedition's s re arches but all a sorts of ot astonishing itata Ints be nl investigated by by means of eat altu meteorological kites flown n at itt altitudes iere ere some tOO 1000 There is an area down Ich miles In ln diameter of Qt we do not know the metel said Mr Bruce Druce in the urse of our conversation Ot Of course U cant can't draw a a. te world map ot of mt even without know that district We Ve lIes les are whether or not the Stationary and that is ot of a. a matr mat mat- r great Ireat on ot of th the world wS consequence WF to the a II In ln ering these days davs of fine lne No one will be ly IY part of the able to deny Scotland credit I its this for whatever t reits re- re expedition 1113 may achieve is not only planned for it V the Tweed Teed and but paid for aged In it is to be every mart man c. c a Scotchman expedition probably trill cost about it if it is to continue as The Royal for three Scottish society is chiefly Interest Interest- l I L j ed in it itt but nearly nearh every very every other I society in Scotland has a h hand nd in lit lf it too Lonon London Correspondence of ot St. St Louis Globe I |