Pacific Science Volume 54, Number 3, 2000

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Pacific Science is a quarterly publication devoted to the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific Region.

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54:3 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)
American Anthropology in Micronesia, 1941-1997

Kiste, Robert C; Marshall, Mac (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

Before the Second World War, relatively few American anthropologists had worked in the Pacific, and Micronesia was virtually unknown. After the war, the U.S. Navy sponsored the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian ...
Developing a Sense of the Pacific: The 1923 Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia

MacLeod, Roy; Rehbock, Philip F (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

The Australian Congress of 1923 was a determining moment for the Pacific Science Association. In contrast to the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in 1914, this first ...
Haast and the Moa: Reversing the Tyranny of Distance

Barton, Ruth (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

The powerful position of patrons and interpreters at the imperial centers and the secondary, supportive position of colonial contributors to the scientific enterprise have been emphasized in the literature on colonial ...
A History of Ethnobotany in Remote Oceania

Merlin, Mark D (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

Ethnobotany has had a relatively short history as a scientific or scholarly discipline, and according to R. L. Ford still lacks a unifying theory. In this paper the history of ethnobotany in Remote Oceania is reviewed. ...
Introduction: The Pacific Science Association and the Pacific Circle

MacLeod, Roy (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)
Motives for European Exploration of the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightment

Gascoigne, John (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

In this paper the ambivalent character of the Enlightenment ideology that was employed to justify the Pacific voyages of the late eighteenth century is explored. Parallels are drawn between the Spanish Christian ...
Natural History in New Zealand: The Legacy of Europe

Andrews, John (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

European explorers and naturalists made many contributions to the discovery and description of New Zealand's natural history. These contributions are examined with respect to the scientific traditions of England, France, ...
Wartime Medical Cooperation across the Pacific: Wilder Penfield and the Anglo-American Medical Missions to the Soviet Union and China, 1943-1944

Avery, Donald (University of Hawai'i Press, 2000-07)

In July 1943, Wilder Penfield, an internationally renowned Canadian neurosurgeon, led a high-profile group of Anglo-American surgeons in a 3-week tour of Soviet medical facilities and battlefield hospitals. This ...