big ship. Flight at 19,000 feet. Some bumpy air. Arrival Nandi, Fiji at 6:50 (8:50 their time). Distance 1978 miles. Dinner at Makambo Hotel at airport. Hot and muggy. Wet season. Left Nadi 10:35 P. M. their time. Arrived Honolulu 9:45 A.M. (11:45 their time). Crossed international date line during night. It is January 30 in Honolulu. Customs and Immigration formalities here; very perfunctory. Room and lunch at Edgewater-Reef Hotel pro- vided by Qantas. Visited Gressitt at the Bishop Muscium. Was intro- duced to his uncle, Prof. Sindsay, retired astronomer, who has been accepted as an associate by the Bishop and is trying to raise money for a planetarium. Left Honolulu 8 P. M. Thursday January 31: A good, uneventful flight ended at San Francisco at 5:15 A.M. (7:15 their time). Place looks wintry (there was inches of snow a day or two ago), Temperatures 30F. when we landed. Staying the day at Hotel Sir Francis Drake. Did this for a rest after two nights on the plane, but had a fairly good sleep last night. I could have gone on today. Am traveling tourist class. Plenty of space on the aircraft, the arm-rests were removed from the 3 seat rows and we could all lie down and get some real sleep. Plane noisy. Friday February 1: Left San Francisco by TWA at 9:35 A.M. non-stop flight to Idlewild Airport, New York, with arrival at 5:15 P. M. (8:15 their time). Smooth flight at 23,000 ft. most of the time. Were held up for perhaps one-half our over New York in a snow storm. Learned when we landed that in the storm a North-Eastern Airline DC6B plane had crashed on Rikers Island, after take off, with the loss of over 20 lives.