178 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
is always an excellent fish course, usually in the shape of snapper, 
probably the best table fish to be had in New Zealand. The famous 
New Zealand mutton is the standard meat, although beef is often 
served. Vegetables, coffee and a ‘‘sweet’’ for dessert complete the 
bill-of-fare. At all of the better restaurants which we visited a 
regular dinner was served in the evening at the price mentioned 
and, although there was some choice, there was nothing like the 
variety of foods which appear on the menu of our middle-class 
restaurants. But the meals are good enough for any reasonable 
person and remarkably cheap. The larger hotels charge much 
more for meals which are somewhat more elaborate. Tipping 
seems to be unknown in restaurants. 
The stores or shops in the principal business streets are large 
and about as pretentious as are found in cities of similar size in 
the United States. 
A map of Auckland shows it to be about four miles square and 
the maze of streets, especially in the business district, makes one 
fairly dizzy, being more perplexing, if possible, than the old part 
of Boston. However, we soon got our bearings and learned the 
principal landmarks. 
The main attractions from the visitor’s standpoint are the parks, 
libraries, art galleries and museums, most of which will be men- 
tioned in the course of this narrative. 
As it was winter, my own special work, marine invertebrates, 
did not offer much that was alluring for it was too chilly to do 
shore collecting. Therefore, it seemed best to devote most of my 
time to establishing connections with the scientific men and learn 
what I could from the museums and libraries. I also hoped to 
accomplish something worth while in the way of exchanging speci- 
mens and publications, thus making the visit profitable from the 
University’s standpoint; I feel that these hopes have been fairly 
well realized. But. it took considerable time to gain the support 
of the Dominion Government and little was accomplished along 
this line before we went to Wellington, the capital. 
On the first morning after arrival I proceeded to buy some 
warmer clothes and finally fortified myself against the cold by 
wearing a suit of winter underwear, an extra undershirt of New 
Zealand wool, a good woolen sweater and a suit of ordinary winter 
clothes; and in addition I usually wore a rain coat. Even then 
I was always chilly in the evenings. Clothing proved to be just 
