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News Notes 
Seashore Treasures.— Dr. Charles H. Edmond- 
son, Zoologist at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 
and Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the Uni- 
versity of Hawaii, has combined his life-long 
interest in the reef and shore fauna of Pacific 
islands with the zeal of a scientist who has 
made of his work a hobby, and has written this 
book, and illustrated it, "for the younger scien- 
tists whose interest in things of the natural 
world, including seashore life, is beginning to 
develop.” The several chapters, on reef fish 
and corals, on shells and slugs and squids, on 
crabs and sponges, and on many of those other 
forms of animal life found along so many Pa- 
cific shores, are written principally for the 
younger reader, but they will serve well to 
educate even the older reader in the facts of 
seashore life that may be new to him and to 
give him the answers to those many questions 
which even the youngest of visitors to the 
seashore, not yet old enough to read but already 
old enough to ask too many questions, will put 
to their elders when the family goes to the 
beach. 
Edmondson, Charles H. Seashore Treasures. 144 
pp., 200 figs, and photographs. Pacific Books, 
Palo Alto, California. Price $3.50. 
The Proceedings of the South Pacific Com- 
mission’s Third Session, held at Noumea, New 
Caledonia, from May 7 to 17, 1949, contains 
information of significance to scientists inter- 
ested in certain of the economic and public 
health projects being directed by the Commis- 
sion. Some of the research projects being con- 
templated or investigated are concerned with 
tuberculosis, filariasis, and other infectious dis- 
eases; nutritional and dietary problems; infant 
and maternal welfare; introduction of economic 
plants; tropical pasture improvement; hydro- 
logical and forest reserves; erosion control; 
fisheries research; and biological control of 
weeds and insect pests. 
Proceedings. South Pacific Commission , Third Ses- 
sion. 3/Sec. 39/Rev. 1 and Pr. 8. 22 pp., with 3 
appendices; mimeographed. Noumea, New Cale- 
donia, 1949. 
