Utinomi’s Bibliographic a Micronesica: Chordate Sections 
Harvey I. Fisher 1 
A copy of Bibliographica Micronesica / 
Scientiae Naturalis et Cult us, by Dr. Huzio 
Utinomi, became temporarily available in 
the Territory of Hawaii late in the summer 
of 1946. This bibliography of 208 pages 
was published in 1944 by the Hokuryukan 
Publishing Company in Tokyo. A negative 
microfilm was made by the University of 
Hawaii Library, and later certain sections 
were enlarged and printed photograph¬ 
ically. 
An interest in the vertebrate animals of 
Micronesia, especially those of Yap, led me 
to have certain Japanese titles translated for 
personal use. It soon became evident that 
although the bibliography was not com¬ 
plete, it did include many significant titles 
that had previously been overlooked by 
workers in vertebrate zoology. 
This bibliography has great interest at the 
present time. Failure to consider scientific 
papers by Japanese students may be at¬ 
tributed to language difficulties and to lack 
of knowledge even of the existence of such 
papers. Apparently few copies of this bib¬ 
liography can be found outside Japan. 
Further, interest in the area concerned has 
been increased greatly by the recent occupa¬ 
tion of Micronesia by Americans. Several 
expeditions and survey parties have been 
through the islands since the cessation of 
hostilities. Interest in these new possessions 
has grown among scientists of the post-war 
period, and many scientific investigations 
can be expected in these islands that were 
formerly under Japanese mandate. In many 
1 Department of Zoology and Entomology, Uni¬ 
versity of Hawaii. Manuscript received March 1, 
1947. 
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branches of science it would be inadvisable 
to start a study without some knowledge of 
the work carried on by Japanese scientists 
in the mandated islands. 
Because of the above facts it seems desir¬ 
able to publish immediately all the titles 
given by Utinomi, and to add translations 
of the titles and publications cited in the 
Japanese language. The present paper in¬ 
cludes only those sections dealing with chor¬ 
date animals, and constitutes pages 24 to 43 
of the original publication, in addition to the 
translated Preface and Explanatory Notes. 
The list of titles is of course not exhaus¬ 
tive, but it is not the purpose of this pub¬ 
lication to add titles to Utinomi’s list. A 
complete bibliography of the chordates in 
Micronesia would take years of preparation 
and research in many libraries. The imme¬ 
diate usefulness of the bibliography in its 
present form, it is hoped, will excuse some 
incompleteness. 
Many difficulties were encountered. One 
of the most serious was our inability to be 
absolutely certain of the "accepted” English 
translations of the Japanese journals and 
books. The Japanese ideographs may often 
be interpreted in several ways; each may be 
literally correct but at the same time may 
not be the exact wording of the journal’s 
name. For example, the ideograph "Kaiho” 
may mean either "journal” or "transactions.” 
In one instance we found in the United 
States Department of Agriculture Miscel¬ 
laneous Publications No. 337, on abbrevia¬ 
tions of titles of publications, that the 
ff Journal of the Formosa Natural History 
Society” was the accepted translation, but on 
