News Notes 
A new edition of Utinomi’s Bibliographia 
Micronesica is to be published soon by the Uni- 
versity of Hawaii Press. The extensive bibliog- 
raphy, which is the most complete list yet com- 
piled of references to scientific publications 
concerned with Micronesia, was first brought 
out by Dr. Huzio Utinomi in Tokyo in 1944. 
It attempted to include all papers published 
until that time in the Micronesian aspects of 
the various fields of botany, zoology, geology, 
geophysics, anthropology and ethnology ( includ- 
ing geography and fisheries). It is therefore a 
polyglot publication, citing not only papers 
published in the major European languages but 
also the contributions of Japanese scientists 
published in Japanese. 
Almost all the copies of the original edition 
were destroyed during the bombing of Tokyo 
in the last months of World War II, and the few 
surviving copies have become, quite literally, 
museum pieces. 
The chordate section of the bibliography was 
published in Volume I, Number 3, of Pacific 
Science, the plan then being to run a portion of 
the bibliography in succeeding issues of the 
journal. When this plan proved unfeasible, the 
University of Hawaii Press, at the request of 
Pacific Science editors, agreed to publish the 
complete work. 
Members of the University of Hawaii faculty 
have cooperated in translating into English the 
Japanese citations, helping to make available 
for the first time to Occidental scientists refer- 
ences to papers which otherwise might remain 
unknown to them because of their lack of 
knowledge of Japanese ideographs. 
The task of achieving correct translations 
was eased considerably by Japanese-speaking 
students and scholars at the University of Ha- 
waii and by Dr. Utinomi, himself, in Japan. 
With their help the titles of the cited papers 
and publications have been translated into Eng- 
lish, and the names of the journals, books, and 
other sources in which they appear have been 
translated into English and transliterated into 
the Roman ji equivalents of the Japanese char- 
acters. 
The citations in other languages remain in 
their original form. To complete the usefulness 
of the bibliography, the lists of the journals, 
magazines, and other publications in which the 
various citations appear are also provided, as 
they are in the original edition, in two sections, 
one composed of publications issued in Japan, 
primarily in the Japanese language, the other 
made up of publications in the languages of the 
Occident. 
The University of Hawaii Press edition of 
Utinomi’s bibliography will be published at 
$2.50 under the title A Bibliography of Micro- 
nesia. It will contain approximately 150 pages, 
and will present the citations in a double-column 
format designed for the convenience of the user. 
A prepublication price of $2.00 will apply on 
all orders received prior to May 1, 1951, the 
tentative publication date. Copies may be or- 
dered from the University of Hawaii Press, 
University of Hawaii, Honolulu 14, Hawaii, 
U.S.A. 
Kuenen, Ph. H. Marine Geology, viii + 568 pp., 2 
pis., 246 figs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 
and Chapman & Hall, Limited, London, 1950. 
$7.50. 
Marine Geology, by Ph. H. Kuenen, Profes- 
sor of Geology, University of Groningen, The 
Netherlands, is a very welcome textbook sum- 
mary in a field where progress has been laborious 
and slow. Despite the chief reliance of the 
geologic time scale on marine stratigraphy, 
treatment of marine processes in most textbooks 
has been almost necessarily meager. Elementary 
geology, in America at least, has been taught 
largely to students who have scarcely seen the 
sea. Oceanographic knowledge has been gath- 
ered mostly by workers in physics, chemistry, 
and biology and unhappily lodged in massive 
expedition volumes. Great numbers of geolo- 
gists have only become aware of the ocean and 
its problems while engaged in often unrelated 
work during the Pacific War. 
Professor Kuenen’s treatise first combines the 
noun "geology” with the adjective "marine.” 
Substantial parts of the data used are common 
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