Scientists On An Atoll
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A TEAM of seven scientists, mostly Americans, left recently by air, via Honolulu and Fiji, for the remote atoll of Raroia, in the Tua motus, French Oceania, where they will spend three months in a study of atoll environment and animal and plant life. They expected to travel from Papeete to Raroia in a steamer provided by the French Administration, which is assisting.
Members are Dr. Maxwell S. Doty, University of Hawaii; John Byrne, Columbia University; W. J. New house, New Hampshire University; Bengt Danielsson, of Johanneshov, Sweden, who was aboard the raft Kon-tiki which in 1949 drifted from Peru to the Marquesas; Dr. Joseph P. E. Morrison, United States Natio nal Museum: Dr. Norman D. Newell.
American Museum of Natural His tory, leader of the group: and Dr.
Robert R. Harry. Academy of Natu ral Sciences, Philadelphia. Some of the material collected will go to the Bishop museum in Honolulu.