The Days of a Man Cigoi 



which it flows westward via Hawaii toward the shores 

 of Japan. Obviously it must tend to give the South 

 Sea Islands their almost identical fauna; but since 

 it is apparently emptied of those species before 

 reaching Hawaii, through the long geologic history 

 of that group as a district apart there has developed 

 a fauna practically distinct, although likewise made 

 up entirely of tropical elements. 



Further In connection with faunal investigations of Hawaii, 



'Znr' ^^ Albatross, Captain Chauncey Thomas, was in 

 1902 placed under my general direction for the pur- 

 pose of exploring the deeper waters which lie between 

 those islands and Laysan. Professors Gilbert, Snyder, 

 and Walter K. Fisher of Stanford, and Nutting from 

 the University of Iowa, constituted the scientific 

 staff. 



The results of this campaign were very extensive, 

 including 210 new species of deep-sea fishes, afterward 

 described by Gilbert. On the trip also Nutting 

 secured specimens and photographs used in preparing 

 the remarkable exhibit of Laysan Island with its 

 monstrous colony of big seabirds, at the University 

 of Iowa. 



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 A critical While engaged in our studies, we witnessed the 

 transition tj-^nsition from antiquated customs to an American 

 form of government — a difficult situation, for despite 

 the native Hawaiian majority in the territorial legis- 

 lature, their representatives were quite untrained. 

 Part of the time they got their own way, but on other 

 occasions they were wholly controlled by the small 

 white minority. As time went on, however, all came 



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