Erosion and the Resulting Land Forms in Sub-Arid Western Australia, Including the Origin and Growth of the Dry Lakes: Discussion

Chapter 17 Activities between 1910 and 1917

“…Gregory's Presidential address on 14 October 1915 reflected the increasing public alarm at what had initially been expected to be a short war, 'Geological factors affecting the strategy of the war and the geology of the potash salts' (Gregory 1916a), which appeared also in summary in Gregory (1915cGregory ( , d, 1917Gregory ( , 1917a. Briefly, Gregory surveyed the mineral resources of the principal protagonists in the war, emphasizing that Germany had more than a half of the European coal reserves which, being the main source of energy at the time, was very important.…”

“…Gregory, who had just published a paper on the lake system of Western Australia, based on his pre-1914 observations (Gregory 1914d), was taken privately by motor car south from Kalgoorlie to see the north shore of Lake Lefroy (121840 0 E; 31821 0 S), which was a dry bed of clay, and also to a new mine about 125 miles from Kalgoorlie, through the kindness of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Kalgoorlie (Gregory 1916e; letter to Audrey of 2 August). The 1914 visit to Western Australia was to result in two papers on the lake system, one read to the BA in 1915 and described below (Gregory 1916e) and Gregory et al (1917). The party returned to Fremantle and travelled to Adelaide on the Orvieto, arriving on 8 August 1914.…”