American Yacht "Chiva"
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Reaches Suva
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Aug. 3.
IN the course of a scientific cruise col lecting flora and fauna for the Aca demy of Natural Science, of Philadelphia, U.S.A., the American yacht Chiva, a diesel auxiliary vessel of 20 tons, ar rived in Suva recently.
She left New York last December, and cruised to Fiji via Panama Canal, Gala pagos Islands, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, and Pago Pago. From Suva the Chiva will go on to Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands, and New Guinea, where the party plans to spend about a year.
Mr. F. E. Crockett (photographer) is the leader of the expedition, and his wife, an anthropologist, is collecting data for Harvard University. Other members of the party are Mrs. Lowndes (writer),
Mr. Ripley (zoologist), Captain G. F.
Adams (sailing master), Mr. C. W.
Smith (engineer) and Capt. John Nash.
So far the expedition has not collected many specimens, but intends to concen trate chiefly on the coasts of New Guinea.