The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-06
Travels Thousands
Of Miles to
Pursue His Studies
Speaker For Belgian Relief Fund
Has Visited Nearly All Lands In
and Adjacent To the Pacific
Ocean

|. From New Zealand to Japan, from
the interior of China TO south. Amer.
ica, from the Solomon Islands back
TO Japan through Polynesia and final.
ly TO Hawaii, are some of the journeys
which Prof. !. Macmillan Brown has,
taken in the last fourteen years in
pursuit of the investigation which he
has made concerning the origin of life
in and the peopliug Of the Islands of
the Pacific. Tonight at the Mission
Memorial, beginning at seven. forty FIVE
o o'clock, Professor Brown will tell much
Of what he has seen and learned dur
ing. those long journeys Of the "Peo
ping of the Pacific" The entire pro
ceeds Of his lecture will be given to
the Belgian Relief Fund, an object in
which Honolulu has felt and displayed
a deep interest since early in the world
war.
Teacher To Traveller
II is a long bark from the teaching
Of classics and English literature in a
New Zealand university to becoming
the acknowledged authority on the PEG.
ping of the Pacific, but this is what
Prof. ]. Macmillan Brown has done.
Ana far as was the call it was almost
NJ nothing to the immense distances
over which his pursuit of knowledge
has left him.
1t was in 1904 that Professor Brown
was led into an investigation which
grew into his life work. Interviews
to the newspapers on n visit to the
homo of the Maoris in mountains al
! most never before visited by Europeans,
led an editor to make him an attrae.
tive offer for n series of articles on
| the PolynPsians. From this grew his
| work entitled "MaOri and Polynesia.
He has ever since continued his
studies and has each year visited
some of the regions of the Pacific. A
comparatively small part Of his research
work has been gathered into book form.
Investigation Broadens
Professor Brown went through the
islands of Japan and spent much time
with the Anus, the pre- japanese resi-.
dcuts of those islands. especially in
! HokkaidO. Thence he Travelled through
4
prov Of China He went through
; Chi,fu and Kiauichau and up into
Shantung, high on.the Hoang no. From
Picking he went beyond the great wall
and then went south to the Yang tse
sailing up to chang, and visiting the
most scenic parts Of China. Thence
he went 10 Hongkong and Canton and
north to tho fountains head Of Chimes
immigration, Flu KEN. Eo9
/ Crosses Pacific
Next he turned his attention ia
South America, studying Spanish first
in Spain. From BuenOs Aires to Cuzoo
/ he travelled overland, thence TO Lima
and thence north through Peru visit
ing the ruined cities of the aboriginal
inhabitants OF South and Central Am
| Crca and Mexico. He went to The
Solomon Islands, revisited Samoa and
the Fiji Islands. went to the German
colonies, Bismarck Archipelago, German
New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, the
Mariannes and the Marshals. In 1914
he Travelled through the New Hebride'
and Banks groups and in 1915 he went
through New Caledonia. Next yea
he visited the Elise and Gilbert groups
and in 1917 was in the Society group
Austral and the Gambler Islands, the
Paumotus and Marquesas and this yea
his research work has brought him here
/, StOddard and similar lecturers have
not travelled as has Professor Brown
who is withal. the student and the OBJ
server. not the lecturer and the sight
seer, the observer of men and Of life
not of mere scenery and architecture
He is student of such wide expe
ricncc AS few Honolulans have eve
had the opportunity to meet or t.
hear.