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a few skeletons of Polynesians. There were also good Maori 

 heads showing the moko. If the plans I have made on this jour- 

 ney do not go aglee this Bishop Museum will sometime have a 

 good series of skeletons of all the races inhabiting the Pacific 

 region. There is not at present any museum collection sufficient 

 for the study of Polynesian and Melauesian comparative osteology. 



22. THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 



There are many great helps to the anthropologist in this great 

 London museum. 



The kindness of Mr. Hobson of the United States Embassy 

 furnished us with passes to many places, among others to the 

 Tower which we visited on the iSth, and there found a Hawaiian 

 helmet, but that was unexpected, and to me more interesting were 

 the alterations in the basement to which our diplomatic pass ad- 

 mitted us, and these, if doing away with some matters of consider- 

 able antiquarian interest, certainly have unveiled others which 

 but for these invasions might have remained in oblivion for more 

 centuries. 



From this wonderful although sad page in English history we 

 sought relief in a freer and broader field, and found this in the rooms 



of the Royal Geographical Societv where we were received by the 



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