Four centuries of geological travel： The search for knowledge on foot, bicycle, sledge and camel

The greater ease of travel in the twentieth century led Raymond Priestley, geologist to Ernest Shackleton＇s 1907-1909 Antarctic expedition, in discussing a University of Melbourne geology excursion to the gold mining area of Daylesford in September 1937, to record： ＂the new method of doing geology with a motor bus while very efficient is not as energetic as the old. It is true we see as much in a day as we used to see in the old days in a week,