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questions as that of distribution. In fact, as extensive and careful collecting is 
necessary in other of the Pacific island groups as has been made in the Hawaiian and 
Samoan groups to permit one to enter with confidence on the study of the facts and 
laws of distribution of the Pacific fishes. 
Three preliminary papers have already been published based on the collections 
in mv hands . a 
Since the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands b}^ Capt. Cook in 1778 there have 
been taken, at various times, small collections of fishes from the islands. The 
accounts of some of these have been noted in different publications. Many of these 
earlier-obtained species were described in the work of Cuvier & Valenciennes. A 
few of these descriptions are so incomplete as to render it impossible to identify any 
of the species in my hands with them. Quoy & Gfaimard’s account of the fishes in 
Le Voyage de l’Uranie and Bennett’s accounts contain a number of descriptions of 
new species of Hawaiian fishes. 
The fishes recorded from the Hawaiian group up to the time of the appearance 
of Gunther’s Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, are fairly represented 
by the 54 species accredited in that work to the Hawaiian Islands, several of which 
are there described as new by Dr. Gunther. 
The most important accounts of Hawaiian fishes that have appeared since the 
publication of Gunther’s Catalogue are given below: 
In the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences for the year 1863 
Andrew Garrett described several new species from the Hawaiian Islands. 
In 1873-1875 was published, in the Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Andrew 
Garrett’s “Fisclie der Sudsee, beschrieben und redigirt von Albert C. L. G. 
Gunther.” This splendid work contains reproductions in colors of Garrett’s 
paintings of fishes made bv him through a series of many years spent in the 
Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands, and in other parts of Polynesia. This work 
contains records of 50 species from the Hawaiian Islands. 
An account of 27 species from the Hawaiian Islands is given by Dr. Gunther in 
the “Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenqer 
in the years 1873-1876.” 
In 1875 MM. L. Vaillant and H. E. Sauvage, in the Mag. de Zool., hi, pp. 278- 
287, published as a preliminary report on Hawaiian fishes collected by M. Ballieu, 
brief descriptions of 18 species thought to be new. 
“Fishes of the Hawaiian Group” by Thos. H. Streets, m. d., Bulletin U. S. 
Nat. Museum, No. 7; Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawaiian and 
Fanning islands and Lower California, pp. 56-77, 1877. This paper contains the 
account of 39 species. 
In 1900 there appeared in the Denk. Acad. Wiss. Wien a very important paper 
by Dr. Steindachner giving an account of 135 species, all but 4 of which were 
collected by Dr. Schauinsland in the Hawaiian Islands including Laysan, a small 
island some 800 miles northwest from Honolulu. Dr. Schauinsland spent considerable 
a Description of a new species of Ranzania from the Hawaiian Islands, by O. P. Jenkins. <Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., second 
>eries, vol. v. 1895 (Oct. 31). pp. 779-784, with colored plate (frontispiece). 
Descriptions of new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands belonging to the families of Labridae and Scaridte, 
by Oliver P. Jenkins. <Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1899 (Aug. 30. 1900), pp. 45-65. 
Descriptions of fifteen new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands, by Oliver P. Jenkins. <Bull. U S Fish 
Comm, for 1899 (June 8, 1901), pp. 389-404. 
