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has Ijcen consummated in various isolated aspects of Hawaiian 

 natural histor3\ and embodied in appropriate and substantial 

 'publications. The following list includes the larger and more 

 important of these studies. 



Ocean, ^Marine Life and Fishes — U. S. Fish Commission Re- 

 ports. 



Geology, Volcanoes — Brigham, Hitchcock, Button, Ferret, 

 Dana, Volcano Research Association, etc. 



Topography — Maps of U. S. Topographic Survey; Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. 



Weather and Climate — Reports of U. S-. Weather Bureau. 



Soils — Reports of U. S. Experiment Station, H. S. P. A. 

 Experiment Station. 



Hydrography — Reports of U. S. Hydrographic Survey. 



Plants — Hillebrand, Gray, ]\Iann, Brigham, Wawra, Forbes, 

 Rock, Board of Agriculture and Forestry, U. S. Forest Service, 



Animals — Fauna Hawaiiensis. 



Birds — Birds of the Sandwich Islands; Bryan. 



Insects — Fauna Hawaiiensis, papers of Hawaiian Ento- 

 mological Society. 



Molluscs — Gulick, Pillsbury, Cooke. 



The total literature describing Hawaiian natural history is 

 thus evidently both extensive and diversified. Practically 

 ever}- aspect of nature has been monographed in some form 

 or other. The great unaccomplished task is the proper co- 

 ordination of this diffused mass of data, in a form that will 

 make possible the accurate plotting of biologic zones. 



STATEMENT IX FAUXA HAWAIIENSIS. 



Perhaps the most sumptuous and scholarly account of Ha- 

 waiian natural history is the splendid British "Fauna Hawaii- 

 ensis." "being results of the explorations instituted by the 

 Joint Committee appointed by the Royal Society of London 

 for Promoting Natural Knowledge and the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and carried on with the 

 assistance of those bodies and of the trustees of the Bernice 

 Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu." The committee was 

 appointed in 1890, the last volume of this monumental work 

 is dated January 15. 1913. The following excerpts from the 

 preface of Dr. Sharp are significant in connection with the 

 proposed biological survey : 



"The committee decided to undertake an exploration of the 

 Islands, and was so fortunate as to secure for the purpose the 

 services of Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, then a young graduate of the 

 University Oxford. Dr. Perkins continued his exploration for 

 some years. As he has given an account thereof in the Intro- 

 duction that follows this prefatory notice, it is unnecessary to 

 give particulars here, beyond saying that he underwent great 



