THANKS. 



MY thanks are due to Miss Beatrix Dobie for her physiographical 

 sketches, and for her careful and accurate restorations of the old-time 

 pas of the station. I consider myself most fortunate in having secured 

 her services. I should like here also to acknowledge indebtedness to 

 Mr T. F. Cheeseman, of the Auckland Museum, and to Mr W. W. 

 Smith, of the New Plymouth Botanical Gardens, for assistance in the 

 nomenclature of plants. I have also to thank Mr Percy Smith, the 

 erudite editor of the 'Polynesian Journal.' Although an exceedingly 

 busy man, he has found time to transcribe and correct papers written 

 from time to time for me by native friends. Lastly, as a sheep- 

 farmer in search of truth, my case has been commiserated, my 

 presence condoned, in many museums and libraries of the Old World. 

 I take this opportunity of reiterating thanks to many learned men 

 for gifts of valuable time. 



