PACIFIC SCIENCE 
A QUARTERLY DEVOTED TO THE BIOLOGICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES OF THE PACIFIC REGION 
VOL. I JANUARY, 1947 No. 1 
Issue printed December 10, 1946 
CONTENTS 
PAGE 
The History, Present Distribution, and Abundance of Sandalwood on Oahu, 
Hawaiian Islands. Harold St. John. 5 
The Tsunami of April 1, 1946, in the Hawaiian Islands. G. A. Macdonald, 
F. P. Shepard, and D. C. Cox. 21 
Dolomitization in Semi-arid Hawaiian Soils. G. Donald Sherman, Yoshinori 
Kanehiro, and Charles K. Fujimoto. 38 
Notes on the Red-billed Leiothrix in Hawaii. Harvey I. Fisher and Paul H. 
Baldwin . 45 
Notes: 
Recommendations of Pacific Science Conference, National Research Council . 52 
Micronesian Expedition of University of Hawaii, Summer of 1946 ... 60 
Survey of Micronesia by U.S. Commercial Company, 1946 . 62 
Cover drawing by A. S. MacLeod 
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