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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. 1, April, 1947 
U. S. Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine 
(Fruitfly Investigations) 
address: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agri¬ 
cultural Research Administration, Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Fruitfly In¬ 
vestigations, University of Hawaii Campus, 
P. O. Box 340, Honolulu 9, Hawaii. Entomolo¬ 
gist in Charge: J. W. Balock. 
purpose: Research on the biology, ecology, and 
chemical control of fruit flies; development of 
methods of fruit treatment to eliminate risk 
that living insects of economic importance will 
be transported through channels of commerce. 
staff: Normally, three professional workers, one 
sub-professional worker, and one administrative 
clerk. 
facilities: Well-equipped laboratory for en¬ 
tomological research (refrigeration facilities, 
vapor-heat room and equipment, constant tem¬ 
perature cabinets, micro-balance, etc.). 
opportunities for field research: Field re¬ 
search conducted in co-operation with in¬ 
dividual farmers or on Bureau’s own research 
plots. 
library: Limited library on general entomology. 
publications: Research results appear in scien¬ 
tific journals and U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture publications. 
research policy: Facilities and laboratory space 
are willingly made available to visiting scien¬ 
tists interested in these problems. Such facil¬ 
ities have also been made available to local 
scientists when practicable. 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 
address: U. S. Department of Commerce, U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, Pacific District 
Headquarters, 244 Federal Office Building, 
Honolulu, Hawaii. Supervisor, Pacific District: 
Lt. Comdr. L. C. Wilder. 
purpose: The principal functions of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey are the surveying of all 
coastal waters under the jurisdiction of the 
United States and the production of the naut¬ 
ical charts and coast pilot publications required 
for the navigation of those waters; the com¬ 
pilation of aeronautical charts for air naviga¬ 
tion; and the accomplishment, throughout our 
country and its possessions, of geodetic control 
surveys which provide essential basic data for 
nautical charting and topographic mapping 
(see U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Special 
Publication 216, "The United States Coast and 
Geodetic Survey,” Washington, 1938). Re¬ 
search is carried on principally in the office in 
Washington, D.C., from field data assembled 
there; work is principally in seismology, mag¬ 
netism, tides, currents, and sea water salinities 
and temperature, and in the development of 
necessary instruments and equipment for carry¬ 
ing on field work. The principal work in the 
area directed from Pacific Headquarters is to 
obtain and make available nautical informa¬ 
tion, charts, and tide and current tables to the 
seafaring profession and allied interests. 
facilities: At Barbers Point, Oahu, is located the 
Coast and Geodetic Magnetic and Seismological 
Observatory, in charge of R. F. White, Geo¬ 
physicist. It is likely that this observatory will 
be expanded to handle the correlating of va^ 
rious earthquake reports and possibly of those 
on seismic sea waves. The Pacific District will 
soon set up, in co-operation with other agencies, 
a comprehensive series of tide gages which will 
also record water salinities and temperatures. 
library: Limited file of publications upon tides, 
currents, seismology, magnetism, chart and map 
making, surveying, and astronomy. 
U. S. Geological Survey, 
Division of Surface Waters 
address: U. S. Department of the Interior, Geo¬ 
logical Survey, Water Resources Branch, Divi¬ 
sion of Surface Waters, 225 Federal Office 
Building, Honolulu 2, Hawaii. District Engi¬ 
neer: Max H. Carson. (The Geological Survey 
is associated with the Territorial Division of 
Hydrography, of which Mr. Carson is Chief 
Hydrographer.) 
purpose: Collection of reliable records of flow 
of the principal streams and ditches in the 
Territory and their interpretation. The organi¬ 
zation also collects data on the artesian wells 
in the Territory and administers the laws re¬ 
lating to the conservation of artesian waters. 
(See also Ground Water Division, below.) 
persons engaged in research: The Geological 
Survey co-operates with the Division of Hy¬ 
drography of the Territory, the two organiza¬ 
tions functioning as a unit. The staff includes 
several hydraulic engineers, two engineering 
aides, and one engineering draftsman in Federal 
pay; and one hydraulic engineer, two engineer¬ 
ing aides, and two clerical employees in Terri¬ 
torial pay. 
facilities: A small hydraulics laboratory is sit¬ 
uated just below Nuuanu Reservoir No. 3 in 
Nuuanu Valley. Here, previous to the war, 
several models of streams were built and tested. 
At present no laboratory work is being done, 
but plans call for one engineer to spend full 
time in laboratory research. 
library: Consists of U. S. Geological Survey 
Water-Supply Papers 1-1014, Professional Pa¬ 
pers 42—207, Bulletins 600—930, Annual Reports 
17-25, Miscellaneous Mineral Reports, various 
monographs, and more than 500 state and mis¬ 
cellaneous reports and textbooks. 
publication series: Publications of the Survey 
on Hawaii are a part of the series of U. S. 
Geological Survey Water-Supply Papers. Num- 
