Dates and Events of Visits to Necker Island - p. 5 
Dates of Visit or 
Event 
Nov. 4, 1786 
Personnel 
La Perouse 
Dec* 21 1953? 
Breese, Paul 
Remarks 
if 
"named Necker Island in honor of the Swiss banker Jacques 
Necker, who at the time was busy in Prance with a futile 
attempt to stabilize the uncertain exchequer of an uneasy 
governement" 
On December 26, 1953? I received a telephone call from 
Paul Breese, the Director of the Honolulu Zoo, asking if 
I would like to take a couple of "borders" for a few days- 
two white terns, one adult, one immature, which he had 
acquired on Necker Island on the 21st, hoping to pub them 
in the zoo. " 
Nov. 4, 1786 
La Perouse 
John Francis Galaup de la Perouse - details of Perouses 
whole trip. 
Nov-Dec.l84l 
U.S.Expl.Exp. Porpoise surveyed Necker en route west from Honolulu 
Nov. k , 1786 
La Perouse 
named for Necker who was French minister of finance under 
Lousi XVI. 
Tanager Exped, 
June 1923 
(early) 
A. L. 0.Atkinson 
president of the board of agriculture and forestry. 
"Of course I am only a collector". "Throe are only four 
specimens of growing plant life: There is a small 
"hakonakona" grass, pigweed or "akulekule”, a salt bush, 
and the "och ai" which is a small plant with a pod and 
flower after which the Hawaiian monkey-pod was named. 
Of the latter plant there are but a few small patches." 
Source 
Wetmore, 1925 
Hatch, 1959 
Buck, 1953 
Buck, 1953 
Anon, 1931 
(Mid-Pac.Mag. ) 
Anon, 1923 
(1280-MP.Mag) 
