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Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 1968-69: VUWAE 13

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The expedition wishes to acknowledge, with gratitude, financial assistance provided by the University Research Grants Committee. To Professor Clark we extend our thanks for his assistance, guidance, and interest in our programme.

We wish to express our gratitude to Robin Foubister and his staff at Scott Base for the personal interest they took in our work and the assistance given the expedition both at Scott Base and in the field.

I am happy to acknowledge the generous assistance provided during the season by members of the U.S. Navy VX-6 squadron. In particular, I must mention the crews of C130 (Hercules), 313 and 319; Lcdr Stewart, Maj. Noll, Maj. Cantrell, Lt Vivian, and Lt Lasher; and helicopter commanders Lt Freeman and Lt La Rochelle.

Carlo Mauri and Alessio Ollier, our two field assistants on the Boomerang Range trip, spent many cold and uncomfortable hours waiting for us while we measured our way up and down sections and laboriously collected fossil material. We wish to express our gratitude for their assistance and surprising patience and hope that there were other aspects of this trip which proved a compensation.

Our thanks to Bob Thomson and his Antarctic .Division staff for assistance with logistic and clerical matters.

Our grateful thanks are extended to John Ricker and staff at the U.S.A.R.P. headquarters, McMurdo.

Barrie McKelvey expresses his gratitude to the University of New England, Armidale, for leave to participate in this expedition.

Similarly, Peter Webb thanks Dr Kear and Dr Hornibrook for granting leave from the N.Z. Geological Survey for the duration of the expedition.

John Andrews is thanked for attending to the financial aspects of page 33 the expedition's activities.

Denis Rainey provided maps and air photos from the Lands and Survey collections.

Our special thanks to Mrs M. Brown, Micropaleontology Section, N.Z. Geological Survey, Lower Hutt for preparing the typescript of this immediate report.

And lastly, may I take this opportunity of thanking all the members of this year's party for the contributions they made to this most enjoyable venture.

P.N. WEBB