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The scenery and peoples of the islands in the South and Western Pacific / J.W. Beattie

[Headstone of John Hubert Plunkett Murray, K.C.M.C., Lieut. Governor of Papua, 1906-1940, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea]

Arthur and Marjorie Tange and others on the Lautoka golf course, Fiji, 1941]

Fijian people, with Arthur Tange at rear of group, Suva, 1941

Pandanus conoideus Lam., family Pandanaceae, Papua New Guinea, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Freycinetia marginata Blume, family Pandaceae, with brown butterfly, Papua New Guinea, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Phaleria capitata Springer., family Thymelaeaceae, Papua New Guinea, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Syzygium tierneyanum (F.Muell.) T.G.Hartley & L.M.Perry, family Myrtaceae, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Osmoxylon novoguineense (Scheff.) Becc. family Araliaceae with the Clipper (Parthenos sylvia), Papua New Guinea, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Adenia heterophylla (Blume) Koord., family Passifloraceae, 1916 / Ellis Rowan

Woman and children by a lagoon, New Caledonia ca. 1878-79

Village policeman and his family return to Higataru, Papua New Guinea, 1951 / Albert Speer