Scientists
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Large Expedition for East Polynesia
From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Apl. 9.
ANOTHER expedition has been organ ised by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, of Honolulu, to continue the studies of Ethnology and Natural His tory commenced a few years ago in the Tuamotu Archipelago and other little known parts of Eastern Polynesia.
The expedition is provided with two ships and is expected to arrive in Tahiti in May.
The principal purpose of the expedi tion is to record data concerning the native people, flora, and the land fauna which are rapidly becoming rarer. Ob servations on geology, marine zoology, and oceanography will also be made.
The scientific staff of the expedition includes Dr. Peter Buck, Kenneth P.
Emory, and J. Frank Stimson, ethnolo gists; Professor Harold St. John and Raymond Fosberg, botanists; Dr. C. Mon tague Cooke, Jr., and Donald Anderson, malacologists; and G. le Bronnec and E.
C. Zimmerman, entomologists. Dr. C.
Montague Cooke, Jr., has been appointed leader of the expedition.