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Although the Galapagos islands were discovered by Spaniard in 1535 and were thereafter regarded as part of the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru the archipelago was during the following three hundred years visited mostly by English-speaking.

Palauan men praise women and state their pride, "Women are strong; men are weak". But men do the planning and make the decisions. This is no more strange to a Palauan than the fact that many children whose biological parents are still alive are adopted many times, and that material advantage should accure from these transactions to several kinsmen of the child.

Historians of art and the general public as well will find it forcibly brought home to them that here at last is an art-show where factual information on artists names and dates can be of no possible service. Half way across the Pacific island cultures that have been called pathetically simple, make sculptured wood images as well contrived to symbolize the lofty things of the spirit that our most successful copying of flesh dwindles into simplicity indeed.

During October and November of 1961, the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in cooperation with the British Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, sponsored a series of geophysical measurements on Christmas Island. Continuous recordings of the earth's magnetic field were made simultaneously at various points on the island under the direction of Ronald G. Mason and John Northrop of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the University of California, San Diego. In addition to these recordings, daily trips by land rover and small boat to various points on the island and in the lagoon were made for the purpose of completing gravity and magnetic measurements with portable equipment. These measurements show a sharp positive gravity anomaly near Motu Tabu, towards the north end of the island, indicating a shallow depth to basement in that area

During the period of April 11-14, 1962, the second author conducted an entomological survey of Christmas Island under the auspices of the Plant Quarantine Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. In addition to the insect collections, 18 species of vascular plants were collected, and six additional cultivated ones were observed