While at the British Museum in May and June, 1960, I discovered five additional eighteenth- century sketches which include views of what presumably are native Polynesian dogs. Two are of the Maori native dog, of which ...

The interplay of genetic and environmental forces has resulted in the process of evolution. The distribution of indigenous plants is a product of the genetic make-up of the successful invaders of a particular area and ...

Strongly inequivalve scallops of the genus Pecten (s.str.) are represented in the western and central Pacific by relatively few living forms, most of which have widely separated distribution areas in Japanese and ...

The fish families Sphyraenidae, Mugilidae, and Atherinidae have been assigned to the percesocine fishes by all authors, and many would include only these (e.g., Berg, 1940: 368). Others have expanded the group in various ...