Another Archbold Expedition
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THE Fourth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea will spend nine months in the Papua area, making the first comprehensive survey of the flora and fauna of the region.
The expedition will be led by Leonard J. Brass of the Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Florida. He will be accompanied by Geoffrey M. Tate, in charge of the expedition’s New York headquarters in the American Museum of Natural History, and Hobart M.
Van Deusen, of the Museum De partment of Mammalogy. The 1953 expedition is sponsored by the Museum, Richard Archbold, Arnold Arboretum, and the US Office of Naval Research. —Pacific Science Bulletin.
Inoculations against any possible outbreak of typhoid during the congested period of the Royal Visit to Suva, were being urged on the population by the Fiji Health De partment.
In mid-October, over 400 Boy Scouts held a rally in Suva, Fiji, where the scouting movement is being strongly encouraged.