poi, and cocoanut pudding. This manages to lessen the incursions on our supplies, for all three of these are staple products which are becoming more and more appetiz- ing to us. The touch of genius which the Doctor has shown, is, I think, in making these natives understand what we are after; i. e., that we are anxious for them to bring us frogs, snakes, land snails, beetles, moths, insects, rats, fruit bats, possums, and insects. In response to a magnificent soliloquy of his in Pidgin English, natives are appearing at all times of the day with a frog on a string, a handful of land snails, a pair of live swifts, three or four rhinoceros beetles, a centipede, and so on. For each of their offerings they are paid a small quanti- ty of tobacco and urged to bring more. The word has passed even to the more distant villages like Kokere, which, if it proves a fertile source, will be valuable in showing a variation in the land snails, which may be counted on to differ between widely separated ridges. The accumulation of snakes, frogs, butterflies, and bugs of one sort or another, all of which is really a sideline of our work, is already growing. A single bushman brought in to camp this morning thirteen fruit bats, which, by climbing to a cave higher up in the mountains before sunrise, he had killed with a stick. In this manner, the natives, reinforcing a theory of Dr. Drowne's which he has never had a chance to try out before, are proving themselves the best collectors of all of us. They can go into places we cannot go into, and know by years and years