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Beauvois (not Beauvais), Setaria (p. 167) 
Palisot de Beauvois, Clerodendrum (not Clero- 
dendron) (p. 196) Butman ex Linnaeus, 
Morinda (p. 200) Vaillant ex Linnaeus. Also 
Boerhaavia (p. 176) should be Boerhavia (the 
original and valid spelling), and Allophyllus 
(p. 185) should read Allophylm. 
In the authorities for the species, there are 
also inaccuracies. The several species credited 
to Forster on pages 164, 168, 175, 176, 186 
should be credited to Forster filius (J. G. A. 
Forster). Bacca leontopetaloides was not au- 
thored by (Linnaeus) Merrill, but by (Lin- 
naeus) O. Kuntze. Sida fallax (p. 187) was 
not published by Walpole, but by Walpers. 
From the earliest voyages to the present, 
all explorers have admired the completeness 
of knowledge of the larger plants by the 
native Pacific peoples. Ethnobotanical infor- 
mation as to vernacular names and the uses of 
the plants is almost wholly lacking in this 
book, except for a few notes on Cocos and 
Tacca. This is regrettable since the people of 
Bikini have now been removed and no record 
was made of their local plant lore. The omis- 
sion is probably due to "military restrictions 
to prevent interference with native residents" 
(p. 19). 
Taylor does not explain the kind of book 
or the reading public he had in mind. It is 
clearly not a book for popular reading, but is 
a technical botanical book. It does not seem 
to be provided for the specialists who know 
much of the Pacific flora and have at hand 
the basic literature and large Pacific plant 
collections, since for these very few indi- 
viduals, there would be no point in printing 
descriptions of all the previously known 
species. Hence, the book appears to have 
been written as a combined technical and 
semi-popular one, for the many naturalists 
interested in the Pacific and for the officials or 
travelers who visit the general area. To these 
the description and detailed distribution of 
each species will be of value. But, for those 
species not illustrated, the student will find 
identification unnecessarily arduous, since 
there are no general keys, and none at all 
except for the genera Caulerpa^ Halimeda, and 
Liagora. 
Taylor knew of the details of the vegetation 
of the southern Marshall Islands only from 
the accounts by Volkens and by Koidzumi of 
the single atoll Jaluit. From this basis he com- 
pares (p. 3) the flora of the two extremes and 
concludes that the southern atolls are notable 
by the "apparent absence of Suriana, Fim- 
bristylis, Tacca, Pisonta, Boerhaavia, Dodonaea, 
Clerodendron, Ochrosia, and other genera." 
We now have collections verifying the oc- 
currence of Dodonaea on Wotje, and all the 
other genera listed by Taylor as missing we 
now know on several of the southern atolls; 
actually all but one of the remainder occur on 
Jaluit, and all but two on the southernmost 
atoll of the group. Ebon. Hence, the com- 
parison, quoted above, was premature and 
not a true one. 
Nevertheless, Taylor’s Plants of Bikini is a 
welcome addition, to the accounts of the 
Pacific flora, giving excellent topographic 
and vegetational accounts, a good summary 
of the terrestrial flora, and an original and de- 
tailed systematic presentation of the lower 
plants, particularly the marine algae. It is 
worth the price. — Harold St. John. 
Japanese Journal of Ichthyology (Nihon Uo Zasshi), pub- 
lished by the Japanese Society of Ichthyologists 
(Uo no Kai), Zoological Institute, Faculty of 
Science, Tokyo University, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan. 
This is a new Japanese journal, the first 
number of which was released on August 20, 
1950. The Journal will appear bimonthly, and 
will present scientific articles, reviews, com- 
ments, editorial notes, and news items. Most 
of the articles in the first issue are written in 
Japanese, with resumes in English; a few 
articles are written entirely in English. The 
chief editors are T. Abe, H. Arai, N. Y. 
Kawamoto, Y. Okada, and K. Suyehiro. 
