Pacific Science Volume 17, Number 4, 1963

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17:4 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)
17: Index - Pacific Science

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Characteristic Features of the Volcanism of the Siberian Platform

Sobolev, VS (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

Widespead volcanism is characteristic of the Siberian platform, and was especially intense during uppermost Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic time. The Siberian traps, which occupy an area of more than 1,500,000 km^2, are ...
Gibsmithia hawaiiensis gen. n. et sp. n.

Doty, Maxwell S (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

A new genus , Gibsmithia, is described and tentatively placed in the Dumontiaceae of the red algal order Cryptonemiales. Its diagnostic features are: possession of auxiliary cells in specialized filaments separate from ...
Hawaiian Records of Folliculinids (Protozoa) from Submerged Wood

Matthews, Donald C (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

To folliculinids in Hawaii, taken from naturally submerged objects (Halofolliculina annulata, Ascobius simplex, Metafolliculina andrewsi) and from submerged glass-plate panels (Metafolliculina nordgardi, Parafolliculina ...
Investigations of Rhinoceros Beetles In West Africa

Hoyt, Charles P (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

In April, 1959, the author was sent by the South Pacific Commission to the countries of Sierra Leone and Nigeria, West Africa, to conduct an investigation of the natural enemies of the various species of Oryctes ...
Population Dynamics in a Sublittoral Epifauna

Pequegnat, Willis E (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

At present we have little evidence that successional changes following predictable patterns occur among epifaunal communities living on natural rock-reefs in the shallow sublittoral of. the open ocean. If this phenomenon ...
Preliminary Report on the Marquesan Sardine, Harengula vittata, in Hawaii

Hida, Thomas S; Morris, Robert A (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

The Marquesan sardine, Harengula vittata, was introduced to Hawaiian waters in eight plantings from 1955 through 1959 by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in an attempt to establish this species as a supplementary ...
A Prior Name for the Hawaiian Gouldia terminalis (Rubiaceae)

Wilbur, Robert L (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

Among the most frequently encountered woody plants in the wetter, forested portions of the Hawaiian Islands are members of the extremely variable genus Gouldia. Fosberg (1937) presented the results of his detailed study ...
Revision of the Genus Pandanus Stickman, Part 16. Species Discovered in Thailand and Vietnam

St. John, Harold (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

The following new species are all but one based upon specimens collected by others and preserved in Bangkok, either in the herbarium of the Department of Agriculture at Kasetsart University or in the herbarium of the ...
The Role of Climatology in the Hawaiian Sugar-Cane Industry: An Example of Applied Agricultural Climatology in the Tropics

Chang, Jen H (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

Climatological study in the Hawaiian sugarcane industry has a long, noteworthy history. Meteorological observations on the plantations were initiated in 1883, preceding the establishment of the first official weather ...
Root Development in Aluminous Hawaiian Soils

Plucknett, DL; Moomaw, JC; Lamoureux, CH (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

Roots of Rhodomyrtus tomentosa and Melastoma malabathricum were excavated in three soil series from the bauxitic area of Kauai . Root systems of R. tomentosa and M. malabathricum in Kapaa and Halii soils were very ...
Studies in the Hawaiian Rutaceae, IV. New and Critical Species of Pelea A. Gray

Stone, Benjamin C (University of Hawai'i Press, 1963-10)

The following notes, including descriptions of four proposed new species, are the partial outcome of monographic studies of Hawaiian genera. Pelea is a genus confined to the Hawaiian and Marquesan archipelagoes, with ...