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taining a detailed description of ‘The Anatomy 
of Opisthopatus cinctipes Purc., with notes on 
other, principally South African, Onychophora,’ 
by W. F. Purcell, including the color varia- 
tions, number of legs and distribution of the 
species. Part V. contains a ‘ Description of 
New Species of South African Pselaphide,’ by 
Achille Roffray ; ‘Description of Seven New 
Species of the Family Mutillide,’ by L. Pér- 
inguez, and ‘Description of a New Species of 
the Genus Japyz,’ by the same author. 
F. A. L. 
AQUATIC RESOURCES OF THE HAWAIIAN 
ISLANDS. 
In compliance with a resolution of Congress, 
Hon. George M. Bowers, United States Commis- 
sioner of Fish and Fisheries, is arranging to send 
an expedition to the Hawaiian Islands to make 
a comprehensive study of the fishes and other 
aquatic resources of those islands. The inves- 
tigations will be under the immediate direction 
of Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford 
University, and Dr. Barton W. Evermann, the 
ichthyologist of the Commission, who will have 
the assistance of a number of experts. 
It is the intention to make the investigations 
sufficiently comprehensive to enable the Com- 
mission to publish a very exhaustive report on 
the subject. The investigations during the 
present summer will be by shore parties and 
will pertain chiefly to the following lines: 
1. A thorough qualitative and quantitative 
study of the commercial and shore fishes, mol- 
lusks, crustaceans and other aquatic animals 
and plants. Attention will be given to the 
actual and relative food values and commercial 
importance of the different species, their migra- 
tions, spawning time and place, food, feeding 
habits, enemies, maximum and average size, 
and other important facts in their life-his- 
tories. 
2. The methods, extent and history of the 
fisheries, the kinds of apparatus used, the man- 
ner of using each and the species taken in each ; 
the manner of caring for, and disposing of, the 
catch; the statistics of the fisheries, value of 
each kind of apparatus ; number and nationality 
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of people engaged in fishing; quantity an 
value of each species caught, and prices paid 
the fisherman, also the wholesale and retail 
prices; and changes in the methods of the 
fisheries since the coming of Americans, Euro- 
peans and Asiatics to the islands will be inves- 
tigated. 
3. The development of proper and just fish- 
ery laws will receive special consideration; the 
history of fishery legislation, including the sys- 
tem of tabu, and the present laws ahd methods 
with reference to each species covered by any 
law, special or general, and the possibility of 
trade in fishery products with the United 
States, improvement in the methods of the fish- 
eries, and the methods of handling and market- 
ing the fish will receive careful consideration. 
Attention will also be given to the possibility of 
fish-cultural operations with reference to such 
species as may be in danger of extinction or 
serious diminution. 
Drs. Jordan and Evermann will sail for 
Honolulu May 30th and remain until September, 
when they will return to America and submit a 
preliminary report to Commissioner Bowers. 
Subsequently, they will return to Honolulu 
with the Albatross and make a study of the 
deep-water fauna of the islands. 
The other members of the present expedition 
will be Dr. O. P. Jenkins, of Stanford Uni- 
versity, Messrs. H. L. Goldsborough and John 
N. Cobb, of the United States Fish Commission, 
and Messrs. A. H. Baldwin and C. B. Hudson, 
who will paint in life colors the more important 
food-fishes of the islands. Messrs. Hudson and 
Baldwin are the artists who made the very ac- 
curate and beautiful colored drawings repro- 
duced in Dr. Evermann’s recent book on the 
Fishes and Fisheries of Porto Rico, of which 
Congress ordered the printing of an extra 
edition of 7,500 copies. It is expected that the 
Hawaiian report will be even more handsomely 
illustrated than is the report on Porto Rican 
fishes. 
4, Mr. William H. Ashmead, Assistant 
Curator, Division of Insects, U. S. National 
Museum, will also accompany the expedition, 
and will make special efforts toward increasing 
our knowledge of the insect fauna of the archi- 
pelago. 
