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During the outward voyage he will visit the Fiji and other islands; in August he will attend the colonial meeting of the British Geological Association in Australia; and in September a supplementary meeting organized by the government of New Zealand. On the return voyage, he will stop at the Society Islands. The trip is made possible by a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund...
...Rice '98 has presented various ornaments and weapons collected from the Zaporo Indians of Peru. Dr. J. C. Jones has donated a collection of New Guinea weapons and implements from the islands of the Pacific. From Dr. W. C. Woodworth come cooking implements of the New Hebrides Islanders, Fiji baskets, and other objects collected among the Pacific Islands. A relic of much interest, recently acquired, is a primitive dugout canoe, which was discovered in 1847 in the bottom of a small lake in the Berkshires...
Several gifts have been made by Dr. Agassiz and Dr. W. Mc M. Woodworth to the ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands at the Peabody Museum. The gifts from Dr. Agassiz consisted of a wooden model of a Fiji canoe, a cooking stove for use on canoes, and a very old Fiji bowl...
...canoe, about six feet long, complete in every detail, was made at the request of Dr. Agassiz; it is the model of a large Fiji outrigger working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with...
...Alexander Agassiz's third letter, reporting the progress of his explorations in the Pacific, has reached the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries at Washington. It was written from Suava Harbor, Fiji Islands on December...