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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I AM indebted to the generosity of the Board of Fellowships in the Biological Sciences of the National Research Council whose award of a fellowship made this investigation possible. I have to thank my father for the gift of my travelling expenses to and from the
Samoan Islands. To Prof. Franz Boas I owe the inspiration and the direction of my problem, the training which prepared me to undertake such an investigation, and the^ticism of my results.
For a co-operation which greatly facilitated the progress of my work in the Pacific, I am indebted to Dr.
^Herbert E. Gregory, Director of the B. P. Bishop Mu-
^seum and to Dr. E. C. S. Handy and Miss Stella Jones of the Bishop Museum.
To the endorsement of my work by Adm…