News Notes 
Building of the new laboratory of the Pacific 
Oceanic Fishery Investigations is expected to 
begin in July, 1949. The laboratory, which is 
to be the headquarters of POFI, will be erected 
on the campus of the University of Hawaii. A 
temporary headquarters office is now located in 
Room 811, Appraisers Building, 630 Sansome 
Street, San Francisco 11, California. First ap- 
pointments to the staff of POFI include: Oscar 
E. Sette, Director; Fred F. Johnson, Assistant 
Director; Milner B. Schaefer, Chief, Section of 
Biology and Oceanography; Carl B. Carlson, 
Chief, Section of Exploratory Fishing; and 
Charles Butler, Chief, Section of Technology. 
Elwood C. Zimmerman, Associate Entomolo- 
gist of the Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters’ Association, and Curator of Ento- 
mology, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, has received 
a special appropriation from the Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters’ Association to aid him in completing 
additional volumes of his Insects of Hawaii, a 
project of the Experiment Station’s Department 
of Entomology. Mr. Zimmerman is now at the 
British Museum of Natural History studying the 
types of Hawaiian insects deposited there in 
collections made by early visitors to Hawaii. 
The following publications of the Natural Re- 
sources Section, General Headquarters, Supreme 
Commander for the Allied Powers, have been 
received. Each report includes a list of all those 
published, their distribution, and rules for ob- 
taining them. 
Wildlife Conservation in Japan. Report No. 
116. 24 pp., 7 figs. 
Aquatic Resources of the Ryukyu Area. Re- 
port No. 117. 54 pp., 14 figs., 13 tables. 
Waterfowl of Japan. Report No. 118. 106 
pp., 38 figs., 1 table. 
{ Important Trees of Japan. Report No. 119. 
Not received.} 
Coal Fields of Eastern Honshu, Japan. Report 
No. 120. 34 pp., 8 figs., 1 pi., 3 tables. 
An announcement has been received telling 
of the change in name of the journal Terrestrial 
Magnetism and Atmospheric Research. Begin- 
ning with Volume 54, No. 1, March, 1949, this 
international quarterly will be known as the 
Journal of Geophysical Research, and will "en- 
deavor to cover a broad range of subjects on 
geophysical research directed toward scientific 
goals, as distinguished from applied or industrial 
geophysics.” The journal will be edited by Merle 
A. Tuve, with the assistance of Walter E. Scott, 
and the advice and experienced help of J. A. 
Fleming, who has been associated with the pub- 
lication of Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmos- 
pheric Research almost since its inception in 
1896 and who was its able editor from 1928 to 
1948. The Editorial Office of the journal is at 
5241 Broad Branch Road, N. W., Washington 
15, D. C. The journal is published by the Johns 
Hopkins Press, Baltimore 18, Maryland, and sub- 
scriptions (at $3.50 a year) should be directed 
to that address. 
The Hawaiian Botanical Society commemo- 
rated its twenty-fifth anniversary on May 2, 
1949, with a program titled "Hawaiian Botany 
Twenty-Five Years Ago” and by election of the 
following charter members to the first honorary 
life memberships in the Society: Elizabeth 
D. W. Brown, F. B. H. Brown, E. L. Caum, 
F. G. Krauss, Maude F. Lyon, Harold L. Lyon, 
G. A. McEldowney, Elizabeth B. MacNeil, Willis 
T. Pope, and O. H. Swezey. 
Among papers to be included in forthcoming 
issues of Pacific Science are: 
Notes on New Zealand Marine Algae I — Vic- 
tor W. Lindauer. 
A Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera 
of French Oceania — P. E. L. Viette. 
Ocean Temperatures of the Hawaiian Island 
Area — Dale F. Leipper. 
The Status of Steller’s Albatross — O. L. Aus- 
tin. 
Three papers on luminescence in marine 
fishes — Yata Haneda. 
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