Glaciologist In Tropics

Young American glaciologist, Ernest William Marshall, fresh from taking part man IGY expedition to the Antarctic, has been visiting Netherlands New Guinea to take a look at her glaciers—the only tropical territory with them, His interest lay with the Carstens, Jul j a £ a and Wilhelmina mountains, and he chartered an aircraft in a survey flight over the 15,350 ft. Mt.

Carstens.

There is a possibility of an American expedition being made to me j.xetneriands New Guinea snow country, says a correspondent.