WELLINGTON STUDENT HONOURED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 15, 18 July 1911, Page 10

WELLINGTON STUDENT HONOURED.

■ ■■'«», - ' TO LEAD EXPLORING EXPEDITION. MR. JENNESS'S CAREER AT OXFORD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, 9th June. The many friends at Victoria College of _ Mr. Diamond Jenness will 'learn with pride of the honour that has been conferred upon him by Oxford University in selecting him to lead an anthropological expedition to New Guinea, The Committee of Anthropology has had the matter in hand: for some time, and has gathered the necessary funds from various colleges interested—Balliol, Magdalen, Bra-senose, Exeter, Christ Church, Exeter University, Corpus Christi, and JeSus. The Common University Fund and Sir "William AnSon'and Dr. Arthur Evans have also contributed liberally. The choice of a leader fell on Mr. Jenness, who came to Oxford from New Zealand some years ago with first-class honours ,in classics and sundry scholarships. As a student of Balhol, where Mr. Ziman also is, he won tho diploma in anthropology. Mr. Jenness will probably reach Papua in November, making Goodenough Island his base of operations. The D'Enttecasteaux Group, of which this is one, liei off the south-east coast of New Guinea, and when Sir William Macgregor arranged for the partition of the New_ Guinea field amongst the different missionary societies, these islands fell to the Methodists. The station oi Bwaidoga, which is to be Mr. Jenness's headquarters, is one of the finest fruits of the Methodist activity, and the expedition is assured of the helpful cooperation of the Rev. A, Ballantyne atld all the Methodist missionaries. The Lieutenant'Goyefnor of Papua has also given his official sanction to tho expedition. t \The first work of the expedition, white it gets into touch with the natives and learns something of their manners and tongue, will be the survey of the D'Entrecasteaux Group, with a detailed study of Ooodenough Island. There are ethnological reasons already in. view which will probably necessitate visits to tho Trobriands and to Rossell Island. PLANS FOR THE WORK. Mr. Jenness tells m© that in the first place the expedition will consist of one, himself, lie has to go ito tho D'Entrerasteaux Group and make a complete study of tho natives, their social life, folklore, arts, etc., besides making a collection of specimens of native handiwork for the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford. The expedition is the outcome of tho efforts of Mr. R. R. Marett, University Reader in Sociology, and Mr. H. Balfour, keeper of the Pitt-Rivers Mneeum, tho two protagonists of anthropology at Oxford. CAREER AT OXFORD. It was in October, 1808, that Mr. Jeniiess came to Oxford !>d entered Balliol College, taking up the study of Literae Humanioves and Anthropology. In the latter he obtained the diploma in June, 1910, and he is now sitting his greaU examinaUou in the' former.