Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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Roll 40:4 Looking N.W. up Pago Pago harbor. Roll 40:5 Upper harbor, looking W.N.W. Along side custom house wharf at 1 P.M. Called on Mr. Scholes, delivering letters and messages given me by Mr. Shafer on Hull Island. Friday, April 11, 1924. Rowed across bay to Sisters' School with Sister Frances and box for Shafer's girls. Took pictures of them at request of Mr. Shafer, in return for his great kindness to us on Hull. Roll 40:6 Mr. Shafer's two girls, Elizabeth and Virginia, in front of Sister Frances' rose garden. Roll 41:1 The two girls and Sister Frances, with the school in the background. (11438) Returned to Naval Station and called on Gov. Kellogg loaning him my "Preliminary Report" and Field Notebooks 1 and 2, to look over. Being unable to obtain a chart of Tutuila, spent afternoon copying H.O. Chart 2924 on small squares of paper to fit note book. Also typed a letter to Mr. Beck for Capt. Stenbeck. Saturday, April 12, 1924. Obtained permission to go to Apia on U.S.S. "Ontario" and had passport vise'd by Judge Hall, Sec. of Internal Affairs. Field trip up the hill behind (S. of) Naval Station, and back across ridge to Reservoir. Followed a very fair zig-zag trail up through a little village and coconut grove and up the side of the ridge. Trail at first lined with verbena and weeds; then with canna and ferns; and finally through a thicket of herbs and trees strange to me. The insects were abundant from the start. They seemed much more numerous than in Hawaii, especially because zone begins immediately with the ascent and one enters the moist forest at