158 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



LANGUAGE. 



A grammar of the language of Guam, of which three parts have 

 already appeared, is now in process of publication in the American 

 Anthropologist. See "The Chamorro language of Guam," by William 

 Edwin Saiford, in vols. 5, 6, and 7 (1903-5) of that journal. 



See also the "Christian Doctrine" entitled "Devocion a San Fran- 

 cisco de Borja, patron de Rota," etc., by Padre Aniceto Ibanez del 

 Carmen, agustino recoleto y antiguo cura y vicario en Marianas. In 

 this little work the creed, prayers, and instructions are printed in Span- 

 ish and Chamorro in parallel columns. A small Spanish-Chamorro 

 dictionary by the same author was published in Manila in 1865, also a 

 text book for teaching Spanish grammar to the children of the Mari- 

 anne Islands. This work is entitled " Gramdtica Chamorra" but it 

 is simply a translation of a grammar written by Luis Mata y Araujo, 

 and is dedicated to the schools of the Mariannes for the purpose of 

 teaching Spanish to the native children. It does not in the least treat 

 of the grammar of the Chamorro language. As far as is known to 

 the author, no grammar of the Chamorro language has hitherto been 

 published. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



In addition to the publications of the scientific expeditions already 

 referred to, attention is called to the following works: 



Les mammiferes et les oiseaux des lies Mariannes, par M. E. Oustalet, 

 published in the Nouvelles Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 troisieme serie, tomes 6 et 7, 1895-96. 



On the Birds of the Marianne Islands, by Ernest Hartert, in Novita- 

 tes Zoological, vol. 5, 1898. 



Report of a Mission to Guam, containing a list of Guam birds and 

 fishes collected by Mr. Alvin Seale, together with descriptions of new 

 species, published in the Report of the Director of the Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnolog} T and Natural History for 1900. 

 Honolulu, 1901. 



BOTANY. 



Pacific island floras. — The principal works relating to the vege- 

 tation of islands in the Pacific Ocean are Schumann unci Lauterbach's 

 Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Siidsee; Karl Schumann's 

 Flora der deutschen ost-asiatischen Schutzgebiete (Engler's Jahrb., 

 vol. 9, 1887); Thomas Powell, On Various Samoan Plants and Their 

 Vernacular Names (Seemann's Journ. of Botany, vol. 6, 1868); 

 F. Reinecke's Flora der Samoa-Inseln (Engler's Jahrb., vols. 23 and 

 25, 1897 and 1898); Luerssen's Fame der Samoa-Inseln and Filices 

 Graeft'eanae, in Mittheilungen aus der Botanik, I, 1874; Seemann's 

 Flora Vitiensis; Hillebrand's Flora of the Hawaiian Islands; Drake 



