xxiv INTRODUCTION. 



The above is a list of the most important contributions to 

 the philology of the Pacific. A large field is still open, how- 

 ever, to students of the present day, while good service will ere 

 long be rendered to Polynesian history by the publication of 

 a detailed catalogue of every known work upon Australia and 

 the Pacific, which I understand that Mr. E. A. Petherick has 

 had in hand for many years, and for which he has collected 

 materials in different parts of the globe. 



