News Notes 
Dr. L. D. Tuthill, Editor-in-Chief of Pacific 
Science and Professor of Entomology at the 
University of Hawaii, will leave with his 
family early in July, 1950, for a year of 
research study in New Zealand. His studies, 
supported by a research grant under the terms 
of the Fulbright Act, will be concerned with 
the Psyllidae of New Zealand. During his 
absence Dr. O. A. Bushnell, Associate Pro- 
fessor of Bacteriology, and Dr. E. G. Smith, 
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at the Uni- 
versity of Hawaii, will serve as editors of 
Pacific Science. 
Following an agreement reached at the 
Seventh Pacific Science Congress in New 
Zealand last year, a permanent Secretariat of 
the Pacific Science Association has been es- 
tablished in Honolulu, Hawaii, with head- 
quarters at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 
The Secretariat officers are: Loring G. Hud- 
son of Honolulu, executive secretary, and 
Brenda Bishop of New Zealand, assistant 
secretary. 
The principal functions of the Secretariat 
are defined as follows: 
To assist governments, institutions, and in- 
dividuals as well as Standing Committees of 
the Pacific Science Association in the imple- 
mentation of resolutions and recommenda- 
tions adopted by Pacific Sciences Congresses. 
To serve as a central office for the Pacific Sci- 
ence Council especially during the interven- 
ing period between Congresses. 
To serve as an information dissemination cen- 
ter in Pacific science matters. 
To assist in maintaining a continuity in the 
relationship between the Pacific Science As- 
sociation and such international agencies as 
the specialized agencies of United Nations, 
and South Pacific Commission. 
H. R. Joesting and J. H. Swartz of the 
Geophysics Branch of the U. S. Geological 
Survey, and R. E. Wilcox of the Volcano 
Investigations Unit, spent the first 3 weeks 
of February at the Hawaiian Volcano Obser- 
vatory of the Survey in Hawaii National Park 
setting up procedures to be followed in a 
program of magnetic observations, calibrat- 
ing instruments, and instructing Observatory 
personnel in their use. 
During February and early March, 29 sta- 
tions were established around and in Kilauea 
caldera and along the road to the Mauna Loa 
seismograph. At each station concrete blocks 
were built on which to set up the tripod of 
the magnetometer. It is planned to occupy 
each of the stations at least once a month, 
and oftener if possible. Periodic readings will 
be taken to determine the variation in the 
vertical component of the earth’s magnetic 
field, particularly the changes in differences 
between the various stations. 
HIATT, Robert W. A Directory of Marine Labo- 
ratories of the United States and Canada. Con- 
tribution No. 4, Hawaii Marine Laboratory. 
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, T. H. 70 pp., 
mimeographed. Available from the Director, 
Hawaii Marine Laboratory. A list of the major 
marine laboratories of the United States and 
Canada, giving for each institution its location, 
director, sources of financial support, season of 
operation, function, capacity, facilities for re- 
search, estimated expenses concerned with labo- 
ratory accommodations and with room and 
board, and the members of its staff. 
Spoehr, Alexander. Majuro, A Village in the 
Marshall Islands. Fieldiana: Anthropology, 
Volume 39, November, 1949. Chicago Natural 
History Museum, Chicago, 111. 266 pp., 50 figs., 
11 maps. $3.50. An extensive study of the con- 
temporary formal social organization of a Mar- 
shallese village. 
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