Correspondence with WC Groves

Correspondence between R Firth and AP Elkin - successive Chairs of Anthropology - and WC Groves, regarding:
- Research updates from Groves' Trip to Micronesia, New Guinea
- Request to the government for a medical officer to assist Groves in research (denied)
- Request for Groves to examine aspects of native culture (e.g. morality)
- HG Chapman's death - misappropriation of funds and subsequent suicide
- Elkin's request for Groves to find accommodation for him and his family in St Kilda
- Details re the publishing of Groves articles in Oceania and Groves' complaints
- Grant for Groves to write up research - request to go to Hawaii conference
- Groves' complaints about the administration in Nauru (Commander Garsia)

Folder labelled "[From folder labelled] / Australian National Research Council/ Mr WC Groves / February 1940 from October 1931".