-9- What of the future? I make bold to predict that es the general economic situation in the Marshalls improves, with assured ship contact between Kili and the rest of the archipelago, and as the new land system on Kili is freed of the "bugs" which presently plague its operation, the formerly emergent leadership will be in position once more to challenge the traditional authority. Certainly with the death of the present leaders (the two Big Men are now in their sixties) the old system will be considerably weakened. The younger generation no longer remembers the ties cf allegiance which applied on.Bikiot between lineages and alabs, and are now guided in this only by the memories ate of the oldsters. One lesson I have learned from this continuing study of a community eeae undergoing change is the necessity to undertake field study at periodic intervals in order to learn how changing conditions affect the predictions of change from an earlier investigation. It is about as close to a laboratory situation as we can come in the study of this kind of problen, November 1963 Honolulu, Hawaii