Bishop Museum Scientists
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In Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Aug. 11.
T\R PETER H. BUCK, head of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, announces that Dr. Harold St. John (botanist) and Dr. Joseph Manson Valentine (entomo logist) will continue with their research work for the Museum in Fiji for at least two more months.
Dr. Valentine, a Bishop Museum Yale Fellow, has just joined the Museum’s active staff for two years. While he will make a general collection of Fijian in sects, he will specialise in studying ‘the Carabids (beetles) of the interior of Viti Levu.
Dr. Buck, incidentally, is considering taking a vacation soon in the Tongan Islands. The Museum has a vast collec tion of Tongan exhibits which he is anxi ous to identify more accuately.
Mr. B. W. Collins, B.Sc., a New Zea-> land geologist, and Mr. M. Ongley, M.Sc., surveyor, sailed from Sydney for
Madang, New Guinea, by the Macdhui
on August 28 to join the staff of Islands Exploration Limited.