Professor Peter Buck

“T AM still working on the material relat ing to Mangareva,” wrote Professor Peter H. Buck, of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, in a recent letter to a Sydney friend, “for there is much detail that takes up time.” On returning from the United States last year Dr. Buck spent consider able time in the Gambier Group. Of late he has conferred in Honolulu with Mr, P.

W. Stimson, who has carried out extensive field work on behalf of the Bishop Museum in the Tuamotu Islands.

After his long sojourn abroad Professor Buck was glad to return to Honolulu where he has purchased a home in a quiet part of the city. “I have acquired the feeling that this is home,” said the scientist, who recently re-visited his native land of New Zealand, where he was received with traditional Maori ceremonies.

Mr. C. E. Quin, assistant secretary in the Samoan Administration, sailed for New Zealand on leave by the Maui Pomare early in November.