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. EXPLANATORY NOTES The following account has been transcribed, without major additions or corrections from field notebooks written daily. Notations, including scientific names, of plants and animals observed are those made in the field and have , for the most part, not been corrected since. Names of plants which are followed by numbers refer to field collection numbers. The original plant field notebooks and also the specimens themselves are preserved in the Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Some of these records, after postive identification, have been incorporated into accounts of Samoan, Fijian, and central Pacific atoll plants. Records of insects collected in Samoa are noted in the volumes of "Insects of Samoa", published by the British Museum. The majority of the specimens from all localities are preserved in the Entomology Department of B.P.Bishop Museum. The transcription from manuscript to typescript was written by a typist unfamiliar with scientific and geographical nomenclature, and some errors of spelling have crept in. Captions for all photographs were written into this journal in the field, with notation by roll and number (1 to 6). The negatives of a majority of these photographs have been preserved in the Library of B.P.Bishop Museum, from which prints may be had. For convenience in identification, the library negative number (between 11,352 and 11,628) has been added in pencil (in parenthesis) following the field number. Maps and sketches have been photocopied from the original field notebooks.