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an abstract of the Pacific region ethnological collections is given 

 later. Salem, always a bewitching city in more ways than one, 

 had also to be passed by, but was not forgotten, as the list given 

 later of the Polynesian treasures of this greatest of New England's 

 Pacific region collections will fully prove. Andover had one or 

 two Hawaiian relics that have been the subject of much unavail- 

 ing correspondence. Generally there is little of Pacific interest 

 in the Eastern states since the removal of the very interesting 



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collection of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions to the Bishop Museum. The Boston Society of Natural 

 History once had a fine series of Hawaiian lavas and of both 

 Hawaiian and East Indian corals collected and given by the author 

 of this report ; whether in the crowded condition of the collections 

 they are still on exhibition or even in existence I do not know. 



We left Boston April 30th on the Laconia, a fine new boat of 

 the Cunard line, and after an eight day passage far to the- south 

 to avoid icebergs, unusually abundant this season, landed at Fish- 

 gard and after a charming ride through Wales arrived in London 

 where we made the final arrangements for the campaign which 

 were strictly adhered to throughout the journey. Hotel rooms 



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