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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1922, Page 7

After many thrilling experiences in the Solomon Islands amoung savages and in territory never previously visited by a white man, Mr. E. O. Armytage, F.E.S., and Mr. Whitby, of the Melbourne Museum, have returned with a wonderful collection of entomological specimens. The collection, which will go into the Melbourne Museum, includes many rare butterflies of magnificent colour, also a fine assortment of beetles. There is also a brown frog about a foot long that is said to be the'largest frog in the world. To obtain the specimens the party had to barter with the savages, and this often proved a delicate operation. They tried to photopraph a cannibal tribe who were naked, but on seeing the camera they rushed into the sea. The party visited Bouganville, in the mandated territory, and found the natives there very wild. Here they secured some rare aiative weapons of the atone