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EIGHTH PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS 



9. Serventy, D. L. 



10. Thompson, Thomas G. 



Senior Research Officer Australian 



Wildlife Survey Section 



C.S.I.R.O., Arundale Hall 



1 Museum St., Perth 



Western Australia 



Professor of Oceanography American 



University of Washington 



Seattle 5, Washington 



U. S. A. 



The Symposium was sponsored by UNESCO, organized and con- 

 vened by Mr. Powell, the Assistant Director of the Auckland Institute 

 and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand. It was alloted one whole day 

 for presentation. There was a large attendance drawn from Zoology, 

 Geology and Botany as well as Oceanography. The rather full pro- 

 gramme of fifteen papers was accommodated by mimeographing all pa- 

 pers in full and distributing copies the day before the meeting. This 

 avoided tedious full length reading of contributions and allowed ade- 

 quate time for discussion after each paper and a reasonable amount of 

 time at the end of the session for general consideration of the topic. 



The symposium convened at 9:00 y\.M. with Mr. Powell opening 

 the convention by speaking briefly on the manner in which the sym- 

 posium was to be conducted, the number of minutes to be alloted to 

 each paper, and the scope of the discussions. 



The pajaers were grouped into three categories, namely deep sea, 

 distribution for general areas, and distribution for particular areas. 

 The subjects represented by the fifteen papers embraced algae, plankton, 

 holothurians, bryozoa, mollusca, fishes, and birds. 



The first paper read was that of Dr. W. A. Gosline, Hawaii, 

 entitled "The Nature and Evolution of the Hawaiian Inshore Fish 

 Fauna." The paper dealt with the Hawaiian provinces and inshore 

 fisheries in the upper 200 meters of water. He endorsed the Schilders' 

 Hav/aiian Province, into which he advocated including Midway and 

 Line Islands. The geography, water temperature, and current systems 

 of the Hawaiian Chain in relation to the evolution and endemism of 

 Hawaiian fishes were discussed. 



Mr. Powell's paper, "Marine Provinces of the Indo-West Pacific," 

 outlined the several published propositions for subdividing the area. 

 It was suggested that the 18 named provinces for the Indo-West Pacific 

 advocated by F. A. and M. Schilder (1939) were in excess of practical 

 requirements. It was also suggested that this nomenclature applied 

 mainly to shallow water faunas and that consideration of both deep 



