In fact we were so busy evenings that it had to be breakfast with Mrs. 
J, Jacquemin^ secretary to the Syndicat d* Initiative et dii '^ourisir^e de Tahiti^ 
on cur very last day so that we could see her beautifully, ordered collection 
of Tahitian shells. Shell collecting seems to be the 
interest^ or Ov 
^ v/evn^' 
pastime of most everyone It is hard to say who has the best or most 
complete collection. Again the Museum the fortunate recipient of some very 
choice specimens which Mrs. Jacquemin presented to Dr. Rehder for the Museum's 
Division of Molluscs. 
The night before leaving on the Teal AiiVAfays amphibian for Fiji by way 
of ^itutaki ^toll, all of i\s ^and these friends dinner together at "the 
Dhinaman's", with Mrs. James Norman Hall, and our tomorrow's flight crew. 
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We had corresponded with Mrs. Jacquemin in the course of organi2ing this 
expedition about facilities^ living conditions^ supplies^ and vessel trans- 
port throughout the archipelago. It was our great good fortune also that she 
recommended Captain Temarli to us, that we v/ere put in touch with ^ean Bres 
whose distillery furnished the alcohol we used, and that she introduced us to 
the then Governor who enabled us to obtain that alcohol at government rate. 
She also took us to visit the Papeete Museum where the curator Miss Aurora 
Natua has on exhibit some exam.ples of native art. Authentic specimens are 
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well nigh impossible to obtain today. Mrs. Jacquemin is/a very good friend of 
Mr* Baldwin-Ba.mbridge, representative of the Matson Lines in Tahiti. Thus it 
came a.bout that he invited us to the luncheon, Polynesian style, baked in an 
open pit with heated stones, and the hula dance pe'^'fomance at his estate 
vrhere this dellfThtful entertainment is staged for the passengers of the Matson 
liners during their one day stop-over in Papeete on the way to and from ^*down 
under.” 
Despite this ”bus3^-ness” night and day, we tried crowding in one last 
collecting trip, to Port Phaeton on the southwest side of the so-called Isthmus 
