262 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Many of the experiences on the trip were new to us but they 
afforded a good idea of certain habits and customs of the people 
and we should have missed much without them. 
Wellington, the capital of the Dominion, is a lively city where 
the homes of more than 90,000 people are distributed over the 
steep hills that encircle the harbor. These windy heights rising 
from five to six hundred feet above the sea have earned for the 
city the sobriquet, ‘‘Windy Wellington.’’ The deep and almost 
completely land-locked harbor is visited by ocean-going steamers 
more frequently than any other in the Colony. Great ocean liners 
ean dock within three hundred yards of the General Post Office. 
One of the finest buildings in Wellington and one of which New 
Zealand is justly proud is the new, steam-heated Parliament 
Building constructed of New Zealand marble. It oceupies a 
commanding position near the business part of the city. We were 
privileged, on several occasions, to attend sessions of the House, 
and to hear discussions not unlike those which occur in our own 
House of Representatives at Washington, D.C. 
Shortly after our arrival in Wellington, Mrs. Stoner and I 
found satisfactory lodgings at Caulfield House, a select boarding 
house near the Parliament Building. A number of the members 
of Parliament resided there while that legislative body was in 
session, and it was our privilege to enjoy the acquaintance of some 
of them. 
One of the interesting persons whom we met at this place was 
Mr. Hector Macquarrie, the author of ‘‘Tahiti Days.’’ Mr. Mac- 
quarrie was in New Zealand for the purpose of securing material 
and local color for another volume. 
Through the courtesy of the Acting Director of the Dominion 
Museum, Mr. J. McDonald, laboratory and desk space were given 
our party in that building. Besides Mr. Hamilton, several other 
members of the museum staff aided me by giving suggestions, ad- 
vice, and in collecting specimens. Not the least of Mr. Hamilton’s 
efforts were directed toward conveying me to collecting grounds 
and other places of interest on his American-made ‘‘Indian’’ 
motorecyele equipped with side-car. 
Mrs. Stoner and I spent two weeks in Wellington but I was 
able to occupy only half the time to advantage owing to illness. 
However, before I was compelled to take to my bed with an attack 
of jaundice, superinduced by a hard cold which I contracted just 
a week before we were to sail from New Zealand, I enjoyed several 
