ready to begin a systematic anthropological survey of Polynesian societies. The director of the museum invited Buck to participate in this survey by joining the museum staff for five years as a full-time ethnologist. After some considerable heartsearching Buck resigned his position as Director of Maori Hygiene, and left the safe harbours of a New Zealand Government job in order to set out on a new voyage of scientific discovery that was to take him to almost every known part of the Polynesian Pacific. By 1936 he had achieved a second professional career that included a professorship of anthropology at Yale University and, successively, the directorship and presidency of the Board of Trustees of Bishop Museum. Buck spent almost 25 years studying and recording the native cultures of the Polynesian Pacific. He produced a continuous stream of scientific articles and monographs of the highest order. He was a fascinating and inspiring teacher and an administrator of great skill and understanding. A succession of high honours and membership in distinguished scientific bodies showed that the world at large and his scientific colleagues in particular recognised his merits. The years at Honolulu brought to flowering a talent for scientific investigation that was largely self-nurtured and grown in a soil of patient determination. The later administrative years at Honolulu were not easy ones for Buck. Bishop Museum was not a wealthy institution. There was a continual scraping for funds to carry out the scientific programme that Buck planned for himself and his colleagues.