On the France -- Solomon Islands Tuesday, October 11th. Hamlin and I left Gizo on the schooner "Awa", and two hours later joined the "France" at Ariel Cove, Kulambangra Island. We were met by Dr. Drowne, Mrs. Beck, and Captain Lang. Mr. Beck was up at camp in the mountains at an ele- vation of approximately two thousand feet. It was a rainy day. We took the afternoon and evening in unpacking and adjusting our surroundings to suit us. Wednesday, October 12th. Dr. Drowne took Hamlin and myself into the bush for the first time. The land surrounding the cove of the anchorage is thickly wooded and the only two means of penetrating it are by following a stream off in a northerly direction or by following the trail that leads to the camp. In the morning we shot one or two-white eyes, pigeons that Mr. Beck calls minors, and a black fantail. In the afternoon along the shore shot more white-eyes, two shrikes, a long-tail hawk, and some minors. It is very rainy at present in this section of the Solomons, and collecting is constantly interrupted in the course of a day's work. Thursday, October 13th. Dr. Drowne has been ex- ceedingly polite and generous to Hamlin and me, taking a great deal of time to show us his method of skinning, the places where different tools are located aboard ship, and initiating us into the customs and routine