298 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
to display the ornamental plants. These botanical gardens in 
Wellington have plant houses, offices, ete., and are in charge of a 
man trained at Kew gardens. I am quite sure that these well 
developed preserves, parks, and gardens are a very important 
educational factor in these countries and that we might well de- 
velop much more extensive institutions of this kind in our own 
land. 
I seemed to sense in New Zealand a sympathetic interest in 
America. They are close students of our institutions, and are 
generously disposed to forgive some things they can not under- 
stand. In other words they judge us by our spirit and intent 
rather than to hold us too strictly to account at all times. If one 
came to know one of these islanders well there would come a time 
when with perfect politeness and yet with keenest interest he 
would ask, ‘‘Why did you so long delay your entry into the Great 
War?’’ and then, ‘‘ Why did you turn your back on a needy world 
aS soon as peace was declared?’’ They feel there must be some- 
where sufficient answers, but I, for one, could not make reply to 
them, for all about me there were wounded men, broken home- 
circles, and everywhere the sears of their sacrifices. 
On the evening of August 15 we sailed out on the Tahiti. I 
stood on the upper deck until the headlands at the harbor’s en- 
trance were dimming in the twilight. Then with an unseen salute 
to those wonderful New Zealanders I went below and joined Pro- 
fessor Nutting in the stateroom which was to be our home for 
most of a month. We had good times together and no small part 
of the value of the summer to me was my close and pleasant 
associations with the distinguished head of our Department of 
Zoology. 
