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Dr. Cooke also prepared in the early part of the year, a pre- 
liminary catalogue of the Lepachatinae and Tornatellinidae in the 
Bishop Museum. The paper, while illustrating the extent of his 
work in these families, serves the wider purpose of a check list of 
the species, and an indication of their distrtbution. The catalogue 
appears in Occasional Papers, Volume VI, Number 5. 
It might be mentioned that the rapid expansion of the collec- 
tions in this curator’s charge, had so limited the space for the re- 
classifications made from time to time, that an additional room 
was assigned to him—the room that had been used for instruments. 
BOTANY. 
The report of the Curator of Botany, Mr. C. N. Forbes, 
covers a period of two years, 1917 and 1918. Mr. Forbes observes 
that 1917 was exceptionally dry on most of the Hawaiian islands, 
with the exception of Lanai, and was, on this account, a very 
favorable year for the botanical collector. On Kauai, during July 
and August, the section west of the Waimea River, covering a 
large portion of the country near the Kokee stream was explored. 
The region is so extensive and so cut up into numerous ridges and 
gulleys, that it was hardly more than skimmed over in the time that I was 
there. The lower ridges represent one of the dryest habitats on the island of 
Kauai, while the vast dissected upland plateau known as the Alakai Swamp 
is a region of perpetual rainfall. In a region of such diversified habitats, 
the flora is naturally very rich and varied and possesses additional interest 
as being the type locality for most of the species collected by Valdemar 
Knudsen and described in Hillebrand’s Flora, and also many of Wawra’s 
species. I received much kindly help from Hon. EF. A. Knudsen, and through 
his assistance covered more territory than would otherwise have been 
possible. 
During September a short visit was made to Lanai as the guest of 
Mr. G. C. Munro. Under Mr. Munro’s system of plowing and seeding 
paddocks, coupled with unusually rainy weather, the country was quite 
green. Owing to the decrease in the number of wild goats, the forest under- 
growth on the main mountain was much thicker than on my last visit in 
1912. I was especially fortunate in being able to find a single specimen of 
Hesperomannia arborescens in its type locality. Part of September and 
the month of October were spent on Maui, in Honokohau valley, where I 
camped at the in-take of the plantation irrigation ditch. Several trips were 
made to the summit of Eke, a small isolated crater with a peculiar and very 
interesting bog flora. The flora of the valley itself showed the effect of an 
unusual drought. A fern, Dryopteris cyatheoides, which was very common 
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