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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field trip, but made use of his desk, books and notes and went through the Coleoptera and half the Hymenoptera of the collection, writing out a check list of the species - the name, number (for reference) and a few notes of description and on economic importance. Called on the Government printed, Mr. Sebastian Bach and purchased a copy of Hazlewood's Fijian Dictionary for 7/6 (regular store price is 10/-). He presented me with copies of two pamphlets about Fiji, some maps etc. and promised copies of other available publications. To Carnegie library and made notes on Fijian plants from Soeman's Flora Vitionsis. Caught a few specimens - including Adoretus beetle and some Tipulidae on lighted shop window, while waiting for library to open. Thursday, June 12, 1924. Up to Colonial Hospital to have anklos dressed. Hospital is a fine, large airy, concrete building on a hill just west of the city. It was opened by Gov. Cecil Rodwell, 1923 and dedicated "to the memory of the sons of Fiji who fell in the great war." It appears to be well equipped with a large staff of capable nurses and assistants. Dr. P. Harper, the resident physician is a very competent doctor. Roll 48:6 The Colonial Hospital, Suva, taken from the Waimanu Road, (11470) looking S.W. Took films to be developed and got bill of lading for three boxes of natural history specimens (collected on Savaii). In afternoon visited the Fiji Museum, housed in a small building near the Botanic Gardens and just S.W. of the Governor's Residence. The museum has only Ethnological specimens and curios - such as coins, bank notes, old papers, and more recent relics of the great war. The collections of clubs, tapa beaters, wooden pillows etc. are extensive. The arrangement is not well throughout, there being a strange mixture of ancient Fiji artifices and modern