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of Partula from some of these islands, a remarkable fact in view of their 
low character and peculiar geological formation. Moki, however, had 
not been visited before. At both Moki and Mangaia, I found a species 
of Partula living in banana, orange and screw-pine (pandanus) groves 
of the coral plateau. 
My voyage was then continued to New Zealand, which does not 
possess any species of Partula; but it is a region of great interest geo- 
logically on account of its voleanoes and geysers, and also in ethno- 

VITI-LEVU, THE LARGEST OF THE FlJl ISLANDS 
A characteristic jungle scene 
logical respects because its natives, the Maoris, are the offspring of the 
same stock which peopled the Society, Cook, Samoan, Hawaian and 
certain other groups of Polynesia. My route then proceeded through 
the ‘Tonga group, which includes many beautiful examples of all three 
kinds of South Pacifie islands. At the end of September headquarters 
were established in Apia, the main town of Upolu in the Samoan group, 
and explorations were made in this and neighboring islands. Peculiar 
species of Partula live here, and they, like the Society Island forms, are 
