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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. I, July, 1947 
Lastly, may I express my sincere apprecia¬ 
tion to the following persons, who have 
given me the greatest facilities and authoriza¬ 
tion possible during all my work: Dr. Keita 
Shibata, director of the Resource Science 
Research Institute of the Ministry of Educa¬ 
tion, Dr. Shikiji Hatai, former director of 
the Palao Tropical Biological Station, Dr. 
Takashi Komai, professor at the Kyoto Im¬ 
perial University, and Dr. Teiz5 Ezaki, pro¬ 
fessor at the Kyushu Imperial University. 
My sincere thanks are also due to Dr. Yai- 
chiro Okada of the Resource Science Insti¬ 
tute and to Mr. Takemori Shintani of the 
Society for the Promotion of Science in 
Japan for their assistance in the publication 
of this work; and to Mr. Ryotaro Fukuda, 
president of the Hokuryukan, who has will¬ 
ingly undertaken the publication of a work 
of this nature which involves much diffi¬ 
culty in view of the present situation. 
June, 1943 The compiler 
EXPLANATORY NOTES 
1. This collection includes all scientific 
works obtainable on the South Sea 
islands, either from periodicals and ir¬ 
regular publications or in book form. 
Since the subject of the collection lay 
primarily in the field of natural sciences 
and secondarily in cultural sciences, 
thoroughness may be wanting in the lat¬ 
ter field. 
2. The scope of this collection comprises 
an area of the southwestern Pacific 
Islands generally known as Micronesia, 
limited primarily to the Japanese islands 
(Marianas, Palao, Carolines, and Mar¬ 
shalls ), but including also the adjacent 
Gilbert and Wake Island groups. 
3. The greater portion of the list includes 
those items which had been published by 
the end of 1942; however, the compiler 
has tried his best to include also publi¬ 
cations of later dates. 
4. The arrangement of the collection under 
each heading follows an alphabetical 
order, with the titles of papers appear¬ 
ing in complete form exactly as they are 
found in the respective publications. 
The order of each citation is: name of 
author or compiler, the year of publica¬ 
tion, the title, the name of the journal 
or magazine (abbreviated), the volume, 
the number, and the page. 
5. In case an abstract in a European lan¬ 
guage is appended to a publication in 
Japanese, the corresponding title in the 
European language appears in paren¬ 
theses after the Japanese title. 
6. The volume is given in bold type [in 
italics now] and the number in small 
type. In instances in which the issue 
number and the individual volume num¬ 
ber are likely to be confused, "no.” is 
written before the former. 
7. When the author or compiler’s name is 
not mentioned, "-” is used to 
indicate such an omission, and the works 
have been arranged in chronological 
order at the end of every heading. 
8. Page number in brackets [in parentheses 
now] indicates that that page should be 
referred to in relation to particular head¬ 
ings or subjects. 
9. When a Japanese journal or magazine 
has titles in both Japanese and a Euro¬ 
pean language, the title used is in Japa¬ 
nese if the paper is in Japanese, and in 
the European language if the work is in 
that language. 
10. The complete names of the journals and 
magazines used in abbreviated forms 
are listed in the appendix. 
11. Dates of publications are all according 
to the Western calendar; and to facili¬ 
tate references, a table indicating Japa¬ 
nese chronology as compared to that of 
the West is inserted at the end of the 
book. 
