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bers of the series pertaining to Hawaii are 77, 
318, 336, 373, 430, 445, 465, 485, 515, 516, 
535, 555, 575, 595, 615, 635, 655, 675, 695, 
710, 725, 740, 755, 770, 795, 815, 835, 865, 
885, 905, 935, 965, 985. 
RESEARCH policy: No special facilities are of¬ 
fered to visiting scientists. 
U. S. Geological Survey, 
Ground Water Division 
address: U. S. Department of the Interior, Geo¬ 
logical Survey, Ground Water Division, 333 
Federal Office Building, Honolulu 2, Hawaii. 
District Geologist: Dr. Gordon A. Macdonald. 
(See also Surface Water Division, above.) 
purpose: Investigation of the geology and ground- 
water resources of the Hawaiian Islands. 
persons engaged in research: Dr. Gordon A. 
Macdonald, District Geologist; Dan A. Davis, 
Associate Geologist. 
facilities: Laboratory-—none. Petrographic mi¬ 
croscope. 
opportunities for field research: Excellent. 
library: About 500 volumes, including U. S. 
Geological Survey Professional Papers, Bulle¬ 
tins, Water-Supply Papers. 
collections: Petrologic collections from the 
Hawaiian Islands. 
publication series: Bulletins of the Hawaii 
Division of Hydrography. 
research policy: All possible co-operation is 
offered to provide facilities for visiting scien¬ 
tists. 
U. S. Public Health Service 
address: U. S. Public Health Service, 208 Fed¬ 
eral Office Building, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
research policy: No local research program is 
carried on at present. 
U. S. Weather Bureau Office 
address: U. S. Department of Commerce, LJ. S. 
Weather Bureau Office, Federal Office Build¬ 
ing, Honolulu 1, Hawaii. 
purpose: Weather forecasting for aviation and 
shipping in the Pacific, as well as for local 
interests. Collection, summarization, and pub¬ 
lication of Hawaii weather records. 
subdivisions: Forecast Office (John Rodgers Air¬ 
port), Acting Official in Charge: Charles M. 
Woffinden; Climatology Office (Federal Office 
Building), Acting Official in Charge: W. F. 
Feldwisch. 
facilities: Original records available from ap¬ 
proximately 300 points in the Hawaiian Islands 
(chiefly rainfall records). Analyzed weather 
maps of Northern Hemisphere on file. 
library: Approximately 100 volumes bearing on 
meteorology, forecasting, and climatology. Sev¬ 
eral hundred volumes and various pamphlets 
of published weather data, mostly from the 
United States, but some from various other 
parts of the world. 
publications: Monthly and annual Meteorolo¬ 
gical Summary for Honolulu; monthly and 
annual Climatological Data for the Hawaiian 
Islands. 
University of Hawaii 
address: University of Hawaii, P. O. Box 18, 
Honolulu 10, Hawaii. President: Gregg M. 
Sinclair. 
purpose: The University, a land-grant institu¬ 
tion of higher learning founded in 1907, offers 
many opportunities for research in the physical 
and biological sciences, both in the research 
programs of faculty and students and in re¬ 
search in co-operation with many of the gov¬ 
ernmental and other agencies in the Hawaiian 
Islands, such as the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 
the Pineapple Research Institute, the Hawaiian 
Sugar Planters’ Association, and the U, S. Bu¬ 
reau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
(The work of the University of Hawaii Agri¬ 
cultural Experiment Station is separately re¬ 
ported below.) 
subdivisions: The University departments which 
carry on research in the natural sciences, with 
the names of departmental chairmen, include: 
Agriculture (Harold A. Wadsworth), Bacteri¬ 
ology (Dr. Floyd W. Hartmann), Botany (Dr. 
Harold St John), Chemistry (Dr. Leonora N. 
Bilger), Geology (Dr. Harold S. Palmer), 
Physics (Dr. Willard H. Eller), and Zoology 
and Entomology (Dr. Robert W. Hiatt). Cer¬ 
tain members of the University faculty are 
assigned, as part of their duties, to carry on 
research at the Bishop Museum. 
persons engaged in research: In addition to 
the department chairmen mentioned above, the 
University faculty in the natural and phys¬ 
ical sciences includes: (Agriculture) Louis A. 
Henke, Dr. William B. Storey; (Bacteriology) 
Dr. Oswald A. Bushnell; (Botany) Dr. Charles 
J. Engard, Dr. Donald P. Rogers; (Chemistry) 
Dr. Earl M. Bilger, Dr. Frederick G. Mann, Dr. 
Robert C. Brasted, Dr. Robert D. Bright, Dr. 
Robert A. Spurr; (Physics) Dr. E. H. Bram- 
hall, Iwao Miyake; (Zoology and Entomology) 
Dr. Frederick G. Holdaway, Dr. Joseph E. 
Alicata, Dr. Albert H. Banner, Dr. Harvey I. 
Fisher, Dr. Pauline Heizer, Dr. Gordon B. 
Mainland, Dr. Leonard D. Tuthill. 
facilities: Laboratory facilities are available on 
the University campus, in Gartley Hall for 
chemistry and physics, and in Dean Hall for 
botany, geology, zoology, and entomology. Agri¬ 
cultural and nutrition laboratories are found in 
Gilmore Hall. Other research laboratories on 
the campus are those of the U. S. Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the Pine¬ 
apple Research Institute, and the University 
