Nazi Bombs Destroy Pacific
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Artifacts
IT is reported in the Quarterly Journal of the Polynesian Society (Druids Building, Woodward Street, Wel lington, NZ) that Nazi bombs have destroyed the famous Cranmore Museum of Ethnology, in Kent, England, well known in the Pacific because of the care with which Director H. G. Beasley had built up a section devoted to Pacific Islands artifacts. This is a serious loss to science and to mankind. The Museum housed a great number of Pacific speci mens, many of them irreplaceable.
The Journal (the 50th of the Society’s
vigorous publishing life) contains inter esting and valuable material. We note especially a long article by Samuel L.
Elbert on the “Chants and Love-songs of the Marquesas”, from which certain history relating to the Polynesians may be deduced, and a continuation of Mrs.
H. B. R. Parham’s annotated lists of Fijian plants.
Mr. C. Slattery, of the NG Adminis tration staff at Lae, arrived in Australia recently to enlist in the RAAF.
Mr. H. Sabben, of the Fiji Public Works Department, was in New Zealand last month spending short furlough.