218 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
home in the evening twilight along a winding road, each turn 
presenting a new and beautiful picture. 
Wylie came and chatted a while in the evening and told me 
something of his trip in the North Island during the week since 
we parted in Auckland. We enjoyed my fire-place and had a 
cozy talk, exchanging our New Zealand experiences. 
The next morning, August 2, I secured my steamer ticket for 
Christchurch, South Island, and reserved a room at the St. Elmo 
hotel there. I also had a conference with Mr. McDonald regard- 
ing exchange of museum material between the Dominion Museum 
and our own and found him ready for hearty codperation. He 
promised to donate several ‘‘Tuatara’’ (Sphenodon) one of our 
main objectives in New Zealand. We then visited the Girls’ Col- 
lege under the direction of Miss McLean, who has spent much 
time in the United States and seems to be a really progressive 
woman. We visited a number of her classes and greatly admired 
the fine appearance of the pupils, who are about the age of our 
high school girls. The most remarkable fact that I noted among 
them was that not one of them wore glasses and I was assured 
that there was no eye trouble among the several hundred girls in 
the college. 
After lunch I was interviewed by a reporter from the Evening 
Post and then Mr. McDonald called in a government car. We 
picked up Mr. Hislop and took a delightful drive along the coast, 
stopping at Scott College, a Presbyterian institution in charge of 
Dr. Uttley, who showed us around. The institution was modeled 
after the best type of English boys’ schools. Here we took after- 
noon tea, the inevitable accompaniment of an afternoon call 
wherever the British flag waves. Mr. Hislop very thoughtfully 
placed a government car at my disposal for the evening which 
was rendered memorable by the Governor’s dinner. 
This was really a wonderful experience for an American pro- 
fessor not used to the etiquette of Vice-Regal courts, and seems 
worthy of rather detailed description. The car called for me at 
7:30 and we joined the procession of autos in front of Government 
House at 7:55. An aide in uniform met the auto at the door and 
showed me to the cloakroom where I was handed a card with the 
name of the lady whom I was to take in to dinner, and also 
indicating our places at the table. We were then ushered into a 
very large, brilliant reception room where I was introduced to a 
number of notables, many of them resplendent with decorations 
