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should issue Volumes II (Birds and Mammals), III (Insects), IV and V (Botany) 

 XI (Geology and Geography), XIII, XIV, and XV (Ethnology), and XVI 

 (Archaeology.) Where several different reports are included under one volume, 

 dated separates are issued for distribution to speciahsts interested in the par- 

 ticular branch covered, and copies are preserved to be bound in the complete 

 series of volumes. 



The author of the present memoir, Mr. D. Jenness, M.A. (Oxon.), F.R.A.I., 

 Associate Ethnologist, Victoria Memorial Museum, after .graduating from the 

 University of New Zealand in 1908, was a student of anthropology in Balliol 

 College, Oxford University. From 1911 to December, 1912, he was sent by 

 Oxford University as a Research Student to New Guinea, and part of his work 

 there has appeared in a volume • entitled' "The Northern D'Entrecasteaux," 

 by D. Jenness and A. Ballantyne, Oxford University Press, 1920. After return- 

 ing from the Arctic Mr. Jenness was on overseas service, with the Canadian 

 Field Artillery from 1917 to 1919, which fact accounts in some degree for the 

 delay in publication of this report. 



Arctic Publications Committee. 



