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many of the doubtful specimens. None but an ethnologist can 

 fully enjoy the pleasure of finding a parallel to some rare speci- 

 men long supposed unique, or specimens scattered through this 

 and that museum, seemingly disjointed, brought closer together by 

 some newly found intermediate form that clearly gives the key to 

 that disjointed puzzle. Dr. Haddon had joined us in the little 

 room that I remembered well from my earlier visit in 1896, and 

 with these champions one fortification of ignorance after another 

 fell before the assault. 



Here the Fijian matters are by no means the whole, although 

 the lists in the appendix will show their abundance. The Tongan 

 clubs we saw rivalled only by some of Captain Cook's specimens 

 at Sj^dne}- and Wellington, and the other portions of Pohnesia 

 were well represented. After a pleasant luncheon in the Faculty 

 room in St. John's College Dr. Rivers took us through the library 

 where we enjoyed many rare and beautiful illuminated manu- 

 scripts and early Caxtons and other bibliographical treasures. 

 Later we dined in Hall at Christ's College the guests of Dr. Had- 

 don, and met many distinguished Professors. It was no small 

 pleasure to see the portrait of Charles Darwin, a graduate of this 

 college, which hung on the wall behind my seat and above my 

 head. The students at the long tables were a fine orderly body, 

 and the custom of Latin grace before the meal and a social meet- 

 ing of professors and guests in an adjoining room for coffee after 

 were pleasant features. Professor Alfred Newton, the genial orni- 

 thologist and teacher, had on a former visit offered me coffee in 

 his hospitable abode in Magdalene College, and after showing 

 his treasures in the Natural History Museum, opened for me the 

 remarkable librar}- of Mr. Samuel Pepys, of which he was keeper, 

 where I longed to spend man}- days. In the interval Professor 

 Newton has passed away. He was chairman of the committee 

 publishers of the Fauna Hawaiiensis. 



In the little churchyard near the museums the widow of Cap- 

 tain Cook lies buried. [179] 



