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News Notes 
Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the Scripps Institution 
of Oceanography, University of California, La 
Jolla, California, delivered an address entitled 
"Hybridization between Fish Species in Nature" 
to an open meeting of the University of Hawaii 
chapter of Sigma Xi on January 27, 1949. 
Elwood C. Zimmerman’s five-volume work 
Insects of Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press) 
was awarded the $250 prize for "the most dis- 
tinguished book by a resident of Hawaii pub- 
lished during the previous year.” This award 
is made annually by the Friends of the Library, 
an organization associated with the Library of 
Hawaii, Honolulu. (For an announcement of 
Insects of Hawaii, see Pacific Science 2(4): 
301.) 
