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distribution of animals, Chap, ii) which correctly foreshadows the way in which this 

 fauna has been formed. The peculiar conditions of life in Hawaiia are to some extent 

 illustrated by the maps and landscapes that accompany Dr Perkins' Essay. 



The Committees when first constituted consisted of Dr VV. T. Blanford, Colonel 

 Godwin-Austen, Mr O. Salvin, Dr P. L. Sclater, Mr E. A. Smith, with Sir W. H. 

 Flower and Professor Alfred Newton as Chairmen, Dr S. J. Hickson as Treasurer and 

 D. Sharp as Secretary. Subsequently Dr F. D. Godman and C. V. Riley joined it. 

 Sir W. H. Flower and Professor Newton, the early Chairmen having deceased, their 

 duties were taken up by the present Chairman Dr F. D, Godman. Professor Hickson 

 the Treasurer, and D. Sharp the Secretary, have filled these offices throughout the 

 2 2 years of the existence of the Committee. 



The Honourable C. R. Bishop, the founder of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, has 

 afforded by the instrumentality of the Trustees of that institution the most valuable 

 assistance to the Committee; and as an acknowledgment thereof the Fauna Hawaiiensis 

 has been dedicated to him. 



It appears from the Accounts of the Treasurer that the Committee has derived its 

 funds from seven sources, viz.: — (i) the Trustees of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum; 

 (2) the Council of the Royal Society; (3) the Government Grant Committee of the 

 Royal Society; (4) the British Association for the advancement of science; (5) the 

 British Museum (Natural History); (6) Sale of the Fauna Hawaiiensis; (7) Bank 

 Interest. The Treasurer reports that the total from these various sources amounts at 

 present to ^47 1 7. 6^-. 3^. 



The first set of the specimens resulting from the work of the Committee has been 

 placed in the British Museum (Natural History), which Institution possesses the types 

 of all the new species described in Fauna Hawaiiensis (except possibly a very few 

 described though the property of others). The second set of specimens has, as a rule, 

 been given to the Naturalists who worked out the collections, and whose names will be 

 found in the Table of Contents in Vol. I of the Fauna Hawaiiensis. The third set has 

 been sent to the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu. A considerable number of 

 specimens has been given to Dr Perkins for his assistance in Honolulu, where he has 

 been for some years a resident. In addition to these extensive parts of the collections, 

 others have been given to the great Museums at Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, 

 Cambridge, Christiania, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Dresden, the Netherlands, 

 Florence, Turin, and Boston U.S. The few specimens still remaining are promised to 

 the Museum of Harvard University. 



D. SHARP 



(Hon. Secretary of the Committee and 

 Editor of the Fauna Hawaiiensis). 



