FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 215 
a walk to get my bearings in Wellington, a city almost as irregular 
as Auckland, placed in a deep valley surrounded by high hills on 
three sides and facing the beautiful harbor on the fourth. 
After lunch, Professor Kirk called in a government auto and 
took Mr. Oliver and myself on a delightful ride along the coast. 
The scenery was most picturesque. The shore was rugged with 
its projecting rocky headlands and rock-strewn flats which, owing 
to an almost vertical stratification, are carved into weird and 
fantastic shapes, while the heavy surf breaking against their bases 
in huge foaming rollers contrasted with fine effect with the deep 
blue of the sea beyond. 
We left the car on the shore of Island Bay and worked awhile 
on the rocky flats, although I was a little lame and wanted to save 
my only good American shoes, having conceived a violent anti- 
pathy to New Zealand foot-wear, an antipathy born of sad ex- 
perience. Professor Kirk is admirably well acquainted with his 
local fauna, as is usual with British naturalists, and is a most 
energetic and enthusiastic collector. We were particularly anxious 
to secure specimens of Dolichoglossus, a near relative of Balano- 
glossus, and found them in abundance. The species is a bright 
scarlet in color but quite small. We secured a good series in- 
cluding many embryos of various sizes. The marine fauna is very 
rich and is well worked by local naturalists. We found many 
chitons, limpets and other mollusks, two species of star-fish, several 
serpent-stars and many other interesting things. 
It was very cold work collecting among the wet rocks and sea- 
weeds, and my hands became so numb that they were practically 
useless. Professor Kirk and Mr. Oliver were used to the tem- 
perature and seemed to mind it very little. 
On the way back we stopped at Mr. Oliver’s house where we 
saw his very attractive wife and baby. He is an able, hard-work- 
ing young zoologist, interested mainly in ecology, and has de- 
veloped a remarkably effective system of keeping notes, photo- 
graphs and printed matter regarding individual species, for ready 
reference, all of which he explained in a very interesting way. 
In the evening, Professor Kirk took me to his laboratory to care 
for the specimens collected at Island Bay that day. He was dubi- 
ous about the Dolichoglossus being properly preserved, but saved 
it in fairly good shape. 
The next morning I visited the Dominion Museum which is 
housed, unfortunately, in a wooden building and the material is 
