Botanist’S Work On

Bougainville

MR. J. H. L. Waterhouse, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I., is still gathering botan ical specimens of Central Bou gainville (Solomon Islands) flora for the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, and incidentally to date has collected many hundreds of specimens—everyone com plete with local native name, and notes on its use by the natives there, e.g., medicinal, magical, etc.

He has also found already that there are considerably over 200 named vari eties of taro, the staple food of these natives. In between times he is doing some entomology, malacology, and anthoropology—especially linguistics.