JANUARY 1958 
NO. 1 
OL. XII 
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PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
IN THIS ISSUE : Fosberg and Corwin — Fossil Flora from 
Pagan • Fosberg — Vascular Flora of Pagan Island • 
Roden — Oceanographic and Meteorological Aspects of 
the Gulf of California • Bary, de Stefano, Forsyth, and 
van den Kerkhof — A Closing, High-speed Plankton Catcher 
for Use in Vertical and Horizontal Towing • Wisner 
— Is the Spear of Istiophorid Fishes Used in Feeding ? • 
Pettersson and Frederiksson — Magnetic Spherules in 
Deep-sea Deposits • Paramonov — Lord Howe Island, 
a Riddle of the Pacific ; Review of Australian Species 
of Laphria (Asilidae, Diptera), with Descriptions of 
Three New Species from Lord Howe Island • Wieser 
— Protohydra ieuckarti in Puget Sound 
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