7 fishes is below normal owing to the difficulty in replenishing stocks. Many of their tropical fishes come from Samoa. The Matson boats brought in fresh stocks regularly before the war. The company got considerable publicity from it, and it was good for the aquarium. The percent Matson boats are not fitted with the equipment necessary for transporting fishes. At lunch, in a restaurant a few blocks from the park, I sat at table with some of the scientific staff. Miss Alice Eastwood and her sister, Mrs. Phelps. Another botanist whose name I have forgotten. Dr. Orr, in charge of mammals and birds; and Miss Sextant, librarian of the Academy of Sciences. Was much impressed with Miss Eastwood. A fine old lady now well over 80, but still active in a limited way, and still in charge of the herbarium. Apparently she is a woman of some private means. At present she is doing a revision of the California lilies. After lunch Miss Eastwood took me through the herbarium, where I met Dr. Howard, who is now sorking on the California carices, and Mr. Kearney, who is revising his recently published Flora of Arizona. The herbarium is sadly overcrowded, and for want of space is not very well organized. The arrangement is according to the natural system of Engler(?). Steel cases, in smallish rooms and in hallways, hold all the collections that can be got into them without undue overcrowding. The rest of the collections are in cartons and cardboard boxes stacked high on top of the steel cases, where they must be reached by ladder. The botanical library, too, is scattered for want of space, and doubtless also according to the whims of Miss Eastwood. She set out to explain to me the system of arrangement for herbarium and library, but soon admitted that it was largely an arrangement of convenience by which collections and books were placed where she could have those she used most handy to her place of work. This is Miss Eastman's show. She runs it to suit herself, but everyone loves her just the same. Richardson seems to have changed little since he was with us in New Guinea in 1938-39 and in Arizona in 1940. Boyish, enthusiastic, and driven by half-contained nervous energy. He may be even a little more excitable than before. And now he is partially crippled. I did not question him on it, but probably his disability is the result of a brain tumor which laid him low dur- ing the war. It affects his gait. His feet are somewhat turned out and part- ly out of control. Sat. Dec. 13: Am gradually getting to know my room fellows: Woodhall, a returned New Zealand importer; Happy, who was an AAF lieutenant and is traveling to Mel- bourne with his wife; Pitcher, an English business man traveling with hit wife to visit a son in Australia, etc. Chief topic of conversation on the ship is the ship itself. People are glad to travel on it but complain of the unnecessary crudeness of appoint- ments and especially the fares charged. Passengers who traveled on the ship before say fares have gone up about 10% since May of this year. Afternoon tea used to be served in the lounges, now there is none, etc. The best crack so far has come from the skipper. Asked why the ship does not stop at Honolulu, he said, "If we stopped there all passengers would go ashore and most of them would not come on board again".