STEFANSSON'S WORK

Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 6

STEFANSSON'S WORK

N.E. OF ALASKA. *

Press • Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

Australian and N.Z. Gable Association,

LOOTXJOfc-AuKDBb 17. Dir And|er.son ireports thlat over 150 islands -were charted in the region heretofore mapped as Chapman, Lewis, and Maicet Islands, in Bafclrarst Met. A great > field was investigated, ■where native copper is widely dflfitribated in extensive quantities. ■ Valuable ethnological aind SarcJieaologdcal collections -were made, indlndiag over 1,000 specimens* of birds and mammals.

DR JENNEIS?. ' o

taSTESTGUISHED NEW ZEAIIANDER.

WELLINGTON 'August 18. Mr G. L. Jemness, of Lower Htitt, has received a cable message stating that bis son (Dr Diamond Jenness) is safel Dr Jenness is' a New Zealander. He was born at Wellington, and educated at Wellington College, where ho graduated ■with honors in classics and gained numerous scholarships. In 1908 he -went to Oxford, entering Baliiol College- and taking up the study of litem hnrnianiorea and anthropology. In tho latter ho obtained hia diploma m 1910. His work attracted such notice. tSiat in 1911 he was selected by the Oxford' Unaiversity Committee of Anthropology to lead an anthropological expedition in New Guinea. The adventures of this expedition amongst the primitive peoples of Papua and the variable -work don© bv it are yet fresh in the memoir of scienftists.