PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. Ill OCTOBER, 1949 NO. 4 
Previous issue published July 8, 1949 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
The Status of Steller’s Albatross. Oliver L. Austin, Jr 283 
A Second Hawaiian Species of Alectryon ( Sapindaceae ): Hawaiian Plant 
Studies 17. Harold St. John and Lafayette Frederick . . . 296 
The Hawaiian Tun Shells. Spencer Tinker 302 
Factors Influencing the Development of Lateritic and Latent e Soils in the 
Hawaiian Islands. G. Donald Sherman 307 
Catalogue of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera from French Oceania. Pierre 
E. L. VlETTE 315 
Flora of Johnston Island, Central Pacific. F. R. Fosberg 338 
Notes on Marine Algae of New Zealand. I. Victor W. Lindauer . . . 340 
NOTES: 
Notes on Three Beaked Whales from the Aleutian Islands . . . . 353 
Chairmen of Pacific Science Council Committees 354 
News Notes 354 
INDEX 357 
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