28 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
in charge of Dr. Edmondson, in which we were particularly 
interested. The aquarium is a great popular attraction where 
many curious and wonderfully colored fishes are well exhibited 
to thousands of visitors, mainly tourists, who visit the beach. 
There are ‘‘butterfly fishes,’’ gorgeous fellows displaying their 
‘‘homeward bound pennants’’ in the form of very greatly atten- 
uated dorsal fins; blue ‘‘unicorn fishes,’’ ‘‘angel fishes,’? morays, 
‘devil fishes’’ and many others. <A better place for an aquarium 
could hardly be found. Immediately in front of it are the coral 
reefs with their innumerable brilliantly colored fishes and other 
animal forms. 
Edmondson’s marine laboratory is very conveniently located 
right on the beach at Waikiki with good coral reefs but a stone’s 
throw away, and with convenient tables for investigators and 
students from the University of Hawaii. He is indeed fortunate 
with a rich tropical fauna at his very door and the inspiration of 
students in his daily work at the University of Hawaii. 
Next we visited the famous Bishop Museum under the direction 
of Dr. Gregory. The collection embraces priceless treasures in 
the way of ethnological material, and many of the zoological spee- 
imens are unique, especially some Hawaiian birds, a large number 
of which are now practically extinct. The mounted fishes were 
particularly attractive in their gorgeous colors and bizarre forms. 
It is one of the best exhibits of fishes that I have seen. Of course, 
we were greatly interested in the reef fauna of the tropical Pacific 
including many exquisitely beautiful corals. This museum oc- 
eupies a strategie position as a central point for the study of the 
fauna of the Pacifie, of easy access to many of the island groups 
of Oceanica with their fast vanishing people and fauna. A com- 
prehensive survey is under way and the Bishop museum is in a 
position to be greatly benefitted and to become one of the most 
important in the world at no distant day. Its connection, through 
Dr. Gregory, with Yale University is also fortunate. From him 
I obtained helpful letters of introduction to the scientists of Fiji 
and New Zealand. 
I was much interested in what Dr. Gregory had to say about 
the Japanese and other inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands. He 
stated that the Japanese, and particularly the younger generation, 
were improving in their loyalty to the United States, for most of 
them were born and brought up under the American flag; on the 
other hand the older men still felt attachment to their mother 
