L58 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
LANGUAGE. 
A grammar of the language of Guam, of which three parts have 
already appeared, is now in process of publication in the American 
Anthropologist. See ‘The Chamorro language of Guam,” by William 
Edwin Safford, in vols, 5, 6, and 7 (1903-5) of that journal. 
See also the *‘Christian Doctrine” entitled ‘* Devocién 4 San Fran- 
cisco de Borja, patrén de Rota,” ete., by Padre Aniceto Ibafiez del 
Carmen, agustino recoleto y antiguo cura y vicario en Marianas. In 
this little work the creed, prayers, and instructions are printed in Span- 
ish and Chamorro in parallel columns. A small Spanish-Chamorro 
dictionary by the same author was published in Manila in 1865, also a 
text book for teaching Spanish grammar to the children of the Mari- 
anne Islands. This work is entitled ** Gramdtica Chamorra,” but it 
is simply a translation of a grammar written by Luis Mata y A "UO, 
and is dedicated to the schools of the Mariannes for the purpose of 
teaching Spanish to the native children. It does not in the least treat 
of the grammar of the Chamorro language. As far as is known to 
the author, no grammar of the Chamorro language has hitherto been 
published, 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
In addition to the publications of the scientific expeditions already 
referred to, attention is called to the following works: 
Les mammiféres et les oiseaux des fles Mariannes, par M. E. Oustalet, 
published in the Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 
troisiéme série, tomes 6 et 7, 1895-96. 
On the Birds of the Marianne Islands, by Ernest Hartert, in Novita- 
tes LZoologicx, vol. 5, 1898. 
Report of a Mission to Guam, containing a list of Guam birds and 
fishes collected by Mr. Alvin Seale, together with descriptions of new 
species, published in the Report of the Director of the Bernice Pauahi 
Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History for 1900. 
Honolulu, 1901. 
BOTANY. 
PAcIFIC ISLAND FLORAS.—The principal works relating to the vege- 
tation of islands in the Pacitie Ocean are Schumann und Lauterbach’s 
Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Siidsee; Karl Schumann's 
Flora der deutschen ost-asiatischen Schutzgebiete (Engler’s Jahrb., 
vol. 9, 1887); Thomas Powell, On Various Samoan Plants and Their 
Vernacular Names (Seemann’s Journ. of Botany, vol. 6, 1868); 
F’. Reinecke’s Flora der Samoa-Inseln (Engler’s Jahrb., vols. 23 and 
25, 1897 and 1898); Luerssen’s Farne der Samoa-Inseln and Filices 
Graeffeanae, in Mittheilungen aus der Botanik, I, 1874; Seemann’s 
Flora Vitiensis; Hillebrand’s Flora of the Hawaiian islands; Drake 
