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Another Australian, by adoption, is Sir Douglas Mawson. In his native Yorkshire fashion he is as handsome as Commander Byrd in his Virginia fashion. Sir Douglas knows the Antarctic better than does Sir Hubert or Commander Byrd. In 1907, when he was a scientific lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia, he was assigned to the staff of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. He ascended Mt. Erebus and journeyed to the South Magnetic Pole. In 1911-14 he led the Australasian Antarctic expedition. Last week he was at Capetown, South Africa, ready to depart with the Discovery, stout...
...Last week Sir Douglas announced the personnel (27 men) of this expedition, which sails next month on the Discovery, oldtime ship of the late Explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The Mawson purpose: to spend two years mapping Antarctica. †Navigazione General Italiana. These motor-ships, each propelled by two diesel motors, can run six months without stopping. ** In the Mexican fiasco over General Pancho Villa...
More than one million books have been shipped overseas by the American Library Association's Despatch Office since its establishment under Dr. C. O. Mawson in the basement of Widener Library last June. Fully three-quarters of a million more books are still needed, for which purpose a campaign for the collection of reading matter will shortly begin...
...Books are equipped here for our returning troops as well as for those who have been going overseas," said Dr. Mawson in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and these must often be secured at very short notice to supply a transport leaving more or less suddenly. The reason we require so many more books is that they don't last, for whereas in public libraries a book may pass through the hands of 30 borrowers before it is worn out, in the Library War Service-especially on shipboard,-a volume rarely outlives the handling by five different persons...
...Mawson urged that all those having any form of literature which they wish to contribute, should leave it with him, or in case the bulk is of sufficient size, a call will be sent for it upon proper notification. It is pointed out that in giving up rooms and cleaning things out for the summer, many old books and periodicals will turn to light, which other wise would be wasted...