Coming in for a landing at Honolulule, we flew through sizzling dark rain clouds over the top of the island. A wild night. Very narrow razorbacks. Very narrow deep valleys. All green and rain-drenched in the late afternoon light. Dr. G. Linley Greivill, entomologist of the Bishop Museum, boarded plane at Honolulule. Going to 15 Claims N. Queensland, area for a week, then on to New Guinea & The Solomons for 2 months. A specialist in beetles. Greivill was in the Wewel Mountains & Central Highlands areas last year. This year he will work mainly in the Banda-ella area in Papua, & in the New Britain, & Bougainville & Madalecanal. George Brooks will help him at Cairns. I have given him a letter of introduction to Gilbert Bates. March 6 - 7 (crossed international dateline) Arrived Canton Island, Chewing Rock, at 8:30 am. Distance 1912 miles. Put there Krauss, U.S.D.A entomologist returning to Honolulule after a vacation collecting visit to Tonga & Fiji; Also Mrs. from Kansas, married to an FCC official on the island & also U.S. post mistress of the islands. Canton a low fall, dry & desolate & much disturbed by bulldozers. Said to have been no rain for 15 months. Rain water cisterns are dry. Fiji had as with it only remaining supply. The shore plantings of littoral shrubs & coconuts are slowly growing off x days. Left Canton 8:55 this time, after fueling, & a short jeep ride with Mrs. B., Krauss & Greivill. Arrived Wadi, Fiji, at 1:30 Canton time; 1278 miles. We left Honolulule with the idea of by-passing to