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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1952Vol. XXII, No. 6

Famous Museum

p. 87 · Read in the full issue

THE annual report of the Museum of Anthropology, University of California, for the year ended June 30 last is an impressive publication, arranged to create reader interest.

The museum’s specimens number nearly a quarter-million, and it is noted that 11,349 of them relate to Oceania, including Indonesia and Australia. The active Director, Pro

fessor E. W. Gifford, is at present engaged in research work in New Caledonia.

Ten of the 700 Rover Scouts who attended a six-days’ Moot near Sydney over the Christmas holidays were native Papua-New Guinea natives. Apart from camp activi ties, the boys had a full programme of zoo visiting (at the invitation of Mr. E. J. Hallstrom) sight-seeing and city shopping.