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PACIFIC SCIENCE, Vol. II, July, 1948 
News Notes 
A conference on the subject of conservation 
in the U. S. Trust Territory in the Pacific was 
held in Honolulu April 19 and 20 under the 
sponsorship of the Pacific Science Board of the 
National Research Council. More than a score 
of persons representing the administrative or¬ 
ganization of the Trust Territory, the U. S. Navy, 
the National Park Service, and other govern¬ 
mental and scientific departments and organiza¬ 
tions participated. The phases of the subject 
considered were: (1) archeological sites and 
monuments, (2) natural vegetation reserves, 
(3) native participation in conservation, (4) 
soil and water conservation and land use. 
The conclusions of the conference were sum¬ 
marized and forwarded to the Pacific Science 
Board for its consideration at the meeting sched¬ 
uled for May 21, 1948, in Washington, D. C. 
A summary of the proceedings and recom¬ 
mendations of the Washington meetings will 
appear in an early number of Pacific Science. 
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Pacific Discovery: This new "journal of nature 
and man in the Pacific world,” published by the 
California Academy of Sciences, is designed to 
make manifold science interesting and intelli¬ 
gible to layman and scientist alike. With its 
first attractive issue it achieves a welcome entry 
into the wide, open areas of the Pacific and 
of the press. Don Greame Kelley as editor and 
art director, Robert C. Miller as managing 
editor, and a group of associate editors drawn 
from the faculties of the University of Cali¬ 
fornia, Stanford University, the University of 
Washington, and from the scientific staff of 
the California Academy of Sciences assure 
varied interests and technical guidance for 
forthcoming issues of the journal. 
Pacific Discovery: published bi-monthly by the Cali¬ 
fornia Academy of Sciences. Editorial, subscrip¬ 
tion, and advertising offices: Golden Gate Park, 
San Francisco 18 , California. Subscriptions: Three 
dollars per year; fifty cents for single copies. 
The United States Geological Survey has re¬ 
sumed publication of the Geophysical Abstracts 
after a 4-year interval, during which they were 
issued by the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The Geo¬ 
physical Abstracts are published quarterly as 
an aid to those engaged in geophysical research 
and exploration. The bulletin covers world 
literature on geophysics contained in periodicals, 
books, and patents. It deals with exploration 
by gravitational, magnetic, seismic,- electrical, 
radioactive, geothermal, and geochemical meth¬ 
ods and with underlying geophysical theory 
and related subjects. Copies may be purchased 
singly or by annual subscription from the Super¬ 
intendent of Documents, Government Printing 
Office, Washington 25, D. C. For subscription, 
the Superintendent of Documents will accept 
a deposit of $5.00 in payment for subsequent 
issues. When this fund is near depletion the 
subscriber will be notified. The deposit may 
also be used to cover purchase of any other 
publication from the Superintendent of Docu¬ 
ments. The present price of each copy of the 
Geophysical Abstracts is 20 cents. 
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Japanese Ornithology and Mammalogy dur¬ 
ing World War II .—Report No. 102 of the 
Natural Resources Section, General Headquar¬ 
ters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, 
47 p., Tokyo, 1948. 
This annotated bibliography of 204 technical 
papers published in Japan from January, 1941, 
to November, 1947, is the tenth report pub¬ 
lished by SCAP dealing with zoological sub¬ 
jects, in a series that will bring to the attention 
of scientists outside of Japan many significant 
and valuable papers by Japanese scientists. The 
bibliography of ornithology and mammalogy 
was compiled by Dr. O. L. Austin, Jr., assisted 
by Dr. Masauji Hachisuka for the avian section, 
Dr. Haruo Takashima for the mammalian sec¬ 
tion, and Nagahisa Kuroda for the section on 
periodicals. 
