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Show EXPLORERS NEW TASK Scientists to Establish Chain of Circumpolar Observations Paris March 8 Referring to the tragic end of Captain Robert K Scoti on his recent voyage to the south pole, M Schrader, the eminent Frem h geographer, expresses the opinion that the death of the English explorer explor-er is the last net in the drama of the polar point obsession which has caused the loss of so many lives. The discoveries of Peary Amundsen Amund-sen and Scott hae at last removed the imperative desire of scientists to find the poles, M. Schrader declares, and leave the way clear lor a considerable consid-erable and important task, the results of which will be far reaching. This consists in establishing a chain of j circumpolar observations, a vast sys-; tem of scientific 'monasteries," international inter-national in character Study of Currents. The atmospheric and marine currents cur-rents which circulate, winter and ftimmer alike round the pole perpetually perpet-ually mix water and air. The cold v. uters descend toward the south, carrying car-rying quantities of lee. and are continually con-tinually replaced by masses of wann-j wann-j er water which come from the Atlantic Atlan-tic Above- these ice fields, floating j toward the south, hovers a layer of cold air ever falling on to the frozen fro-zen mass beneath, as a heavy svrnp ; drops and remains at the bottom of the glass of water. In their turn the ; eea breezes push and stir up this mass of cold air, lift If from Its Icy bed. and send it to cool America and Europe. Cold Masses of Air. These cold masses of air as soon as they ome n contact with the tepid atmosphere of the Atlantic, condense the molBture precipitate rain, and brew tempests Thus, by developing an accurate knowledge ol the courses of the Ice fields, by following them in their southward course and obsr r-. ing the phenomena of their slow fusion fu-sion in the middle of the Atlantic, it would be possible lo foretell to a great extent the force Of the winds, the alternation al-ternation and character of the seasons, sea-sons, and the likelihood of drouth or wet. Warning against atmospheric dangers could be given, and there would be ample time to adopt such precautions as circumstances should dictate : oo |