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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 9

Another Archbold Expedition

p. 37 · Read in the full issue

was in Papua-New Guinea in April. This one, sixth of a series (three earlier ones were in the 1930’5, one was in 1953 and the last in 1956) will last seven months.

TWO scientists, Mr. Leonard Brass, associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History, and Mr. Robert van Deusen, mammalogist, will study the geographical and biological relationship of animal

and plant life, They propose to establish a series of camps on the slopes of Mt.

Wilhelm (15,400 ft and occasionally snow-capped), on the Madang side of the Eastern Highlands.