10 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
to say that we would receive the same official concessions that we 
did at Barbados and that it was likely that the little island of 
Makuluva would be placed at our disposal just as Pelican Island 
off the coast of Barbados had been turned over to us in 1918. 
He then proceeded to depict the Fiji Islands and the advantages 
of this group for zoological work in most alluring terms. 
I was strongly tempted, but still adhered to my determination 
not to assume the responsibility of leadership in further adven- 
tures along such lines, and I let the matter rest until the autumn 
of 1921. At that time a reporter from a local paper published 
a note regarding the invitation from Fiji, and immediately I 
received an urgent request from two of the members of the 
Barbados-Antigua party that they be counted in on the Fiji en- 
terprise, and asking me to act again as their leader. 
This request from two of my most valued associates, Profes- 
sor A. O. Thomas and Dr. Dayton Stoner, was more than I could 
resist, and the matter was taken into serious consideration. I 
found that President Jessup and Dean Seashore favored the idea, 
so the die was east. 
After careful consideration of the make-up of the proposed 
party, it was decided that membership should be limited to six 
professional naturalists, and that three departments of the uni- 
versity should be represented, botany, geology, and zoology. 
Such men would divide responsibility with the leader and each 
would be able to do more work and do it more efficiently than 
younger and less experienced men. Moreover, the cost of trans- 
portation, which would obviously be much greater than that of 
previous parties, would be very materially reduced by thus re- 
stricting the membership. 
Professor R. B. Wylie, head of the department of botany, was 
very gladly accepted as a member and proved a most fortunate 
choice. We were particularly anxious to have Mr. John B. 
Henderson, who had done so much both financially and per- 
sonally to assure the success of the previous expedition, join us; 
he took the matter under consideration, but was finally com- 
pelled by business and family affairs to decline with evident re- 
gret.? 
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2 Mr. Henderson had undertaken the report on the Mollusca of the Barba- 
dos-Antigua Expedition and had the work well in hand. After our return 
from Fiji we were greatly shocked to hear of his death January 4, 1923, 
and it is difficult even now to realize that the genial, quick-witted, energetic 
