NEWS NOTE 
Tenth Pacific Science Congress Papers 
The Tenth Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association was held 
on the campus of the University of Hawaii August 21 to September 6, 1961, under 
the joint auspices of the University, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, and the 
National Academy of Sciences. 
The University of Hawaii Press is publishing seven volumes of the distinguished 
papers of the Congress, each volume dealing with a different subject as it applies to 
the conditions that prevail in the various countries of this vast and increasingly 
important segment of the world scene. They include: 
Ancient Pacific Floras 
The Pollen Story 
Lucy M. Cranwell, editor 
The papers collected in this volume record the existence, identity, and geograph- 
ical location of fossil pollens, correlating them with climatic changes and glacial and 
geological periods. Fourteen articles contributed by eleven authors deal specifically 
with Australia, Borneo, Chile, Japan, New Zealand, and islands of the Pacific, and 
range from Eurasia and Antarctica to the sediment of the ocean floor. 
In the course of outlining this method of attacking the eternally intriguing 
mystery of the earth’s age, the authors have enumerated species and the places where 
they are to be found — findings which should be of interest to the petroleum industry 
as well as to the paleobotanist. The collection exemplifies the coordination of 
scientific studies for which the Pacific Science Association is noted. 
Dr. Cranwell is associated with the Geochronological Laboratories at the Uni- 
versity of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. 
1 14 pp., illus. Winter, 1964 Paper, $3.50 
Public Health and Medical Sciences 
in the Pacific 
A Forty-year Review 
J. Ralph Audy, editor 
The period covered by these reports — approximately 1920 to I960 — was one of 
turmoil, war, and political, social and cultural upheaval. The reports reflect strenuous 
efforts to salvage what was good in health practices and procedure in the past and 
to make all further progress possible in the face of adverse circumstances. 
The countries reporting are: Australia, Canada, Chile, China (Taiwan), Indo- 
nesia, Japan, Malaya, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States. 
The report on the United States includes California and Hawaii. 
This collection of reports will be of particular interest to those engaged in the 
various aspects of medical and public health work and to students of these areas. 
The material has been designed to appeal to the general scientist as well. 
Dr. Audy is director of the George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco 
Medical Center, University of California, Berkeley, California. 
Approx. 300 pp. Winter, 1964 Paper, $7.50 
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