PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. XIII APRIL 1959 NO. 2 
Previous issue published January 5, 1959 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
Notes on the Ecology and Environmental Adaptations of the Terrestrial 
Amphipoda. D. E. Hurley 107 
Contributions to the Knowledge of the Alpheid Shrimp of the Pacific Ocean 
Part IV. Various Small Collections from the Central Pacific Area, in- 
cluding Supplementary Notes on Alpheids from Hawaii. Albert H. Banner . 130 
Botanical Novelties on the Island of Niihau, Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian 
Plant Studies 2b. Harold St. John .....156 
Composition and Nutritive Value of Palolo (Palola sidliensis Gruhe) . 
Carey D. Miller and Florence Pen 191 
Vegetative Anatomy of Dubautia, Argyroxiphium, and Wilkesia (Compositae). 
Slierwin Carlquist 195 
NOTES 211 
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