generously ^Etablisserients Donald Tahiti^’* one of the leading inport-export 
firms in the South Pacific^ permitted us to use part of one of their storage 
sheds. We are indebted to them for this ■^^ery considerable help as are we also 
to Miss Jarire Lagiaesse whom vre met aboard the ’’Mariposa, 2 She vras returning 
from a vacation in France, In Papeete she owns one of the leading bicycle 
agencies. So after we got tv^rough customs^ and before we got to know Donald 
she was able to care for much of our personal impediment 
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ese, and aTl"^t^ other fri^^div^ 
fic mentiojvof the helpfulness 
weeks in and abou 
We came^ we saw^ but in our recollections ^ind that we were con*:;uered by 
those lovely Isles of Paradise and the lovely people v^ho live there. As James 
Norman Hall has put it: ’’There is a magic about these islands that is time 
defying; that loses nothing of its power^ however long continued one’s 
association wj..th them may be.” To finish out his thought and heart-felt con- 
viction, we add, ”or hovrever long, or far away one ever may be.” He died 
in Papeete July 1951 in his 65 th year. 
This brief j recapitulation of our goings and comings in French Oceania 
recounts very little of the expedition’s scientific results, actual, potential, 
and jet to be published^ upon. The worth of this - as of all similar museum, 
expeditions - must after all be evaluated in terms of the recorded observations 
an'< the scientific study materials brought back for examination and report. 
Vie occupied 129 collecting stations — dredging, tow netting, and dip-netting 
over the ship’s side vdth the aid of an electric light for plankton, microscopic 
organisms of all kinds, larval forms: shore and reef collecting for fishes, 
cru.staceans, shells, coelenterates, and such other invertebrates as we came 
