FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 221 
ranged for the Dominion Museum to present four living tuatara 
or sphenodons, to our University, and that I was to try to trans- 
port, alive, to Iowa City, probably the first liying specimens to 
be taken to the interior of the United States. He also had ar- 
ranged to present us with a large, elaborately carved Maori door- 
way and a number of other Maori articles which are now literally 
priceless, as it is illegal to purchase or export them except under 
permits from the Dominion Government. Exchange of publica- 
tions was also arranged. 
On learning of the very strict laws regarding the exportation 
of ethnological material, I had given up all hope of success in 
securing any for our museum, but found that when one goes to 
New Zealand with proper credentials, and succeeds in penetrating 
the somewhat rigid official crust, it is possible to secure many 
things which would be beyond the reach of the unofficial stranger. 
We owe this generous treatment very largely to our good friends, 
Mr. Hislop, Under Secretary for Internal Affiairs and Mr. Me- 
Donald, Acting Director of the Dominion Museum. 
That evening Wylie and I took dinner with Mr. McDonald at 
his home in a beautiful suburb across the harbor. We spent a 
most delightful evening there, incidentally discovering that Mr. 
MeDonald is an artist of real ability who has painted some re- 
markably fine life sized portraits in oil and has done some good 
etchings and sketches. Mrs. McDonald was very earnestly in- 
terested in prohibition and asked many questions regarding its 
success in the United States. They have a daughter who is anxi- 
ous to visit America. 
After returning to the hotel I spent a good deal of the night 
in revolving schemes for transporting the tuataras alive to the 
United States and in planning the final packing and shipment of 
our collection, which was considerably more extensive and valu- 
able than I had anticipated. 
The next day I found that Stoner was still sick and that Wylie, 
besides having a very bad cold, was threatened with sinus trouble 
which might become serious. This reduced our available force to 
about half the original number. Thomas and Glock were away on 
their long South Island trip and were not expected back until the 
day before sailing. Mrs. Stoner could help about the packing of 
the insects, but was mainly oceupied with caring for her husband. 
On August 12 Thomas and Glock returned. The Hon. Mr. G. M. 
Thompson, a prominent Government official, invited us to lunch in 
