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this list only three are growing on the island today. 
The island was mapped, (Figure II) and collections were made of birds, 
mammals, insects, arachnids, plants, fish, molluscs, and many varieties of 
marine invertebrates.■ Twenty species of birds were noted by Wetmore (unpub. 
notes, 1923) and the bird and mammal life discussed briefly (Wetmore, 1925). 
The insects collected by the Tanager Expedition were described in papers by 
Timberlake (192*4-)/ Bryan (1926), Wheeler (193*0/ and Zimmerman (19*4-8). 
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Christophersen and Caum (1931) reported that the vegetation was "exceedingly 
poor, one patch of grass at the north end a few other plants sparsely distributed 
being all that was to be found. n Four species of vascular plants were collected. 
Fish specimens collected by the expedition have been discussed by Fowler and 
Ball (1925) and Fowler (1927, 1928, 1931/ 193^/ and 19*1-9). The Crustacea were 
treated by Edmondson (I925), the Echinodermata by Fisher (I925) and Clark (1925 
and 1949)/ and the Foraminfera by Cushman (192'5). Thompson (1938) and Bequaert 
(l9*+l) discuss the Hippoboscidae collected by the expedition. Frank Richardson 
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of the University of Washington visited the island on 26 March 195*b and has 
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kindly made his population estimates available to the FOBSP. 
Personnel of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife made aerial 
surveys of Lisianski in December 1956, January, April, May, October and 
December 1957/ and January, April, May and June 1958. Their observations are 
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reported in papers on the Hawaiian monk seal (Kenyan and Rice, 1959) and the 
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albatrosses (Rice and Kenyon, I 962 ). 
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Personnel of the Division of Fish and Game of the State of Hawaii Visited 
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the island on 9 March I 96 I. They made general observations on the wildlife, 
surveyed the possibilities for the introduction of Laysan Teal, set up photo- 
graphic stations, and set up refuge signs. Their observations were presented 
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