Scientist Going To Rotuma
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Honolulu, June 2.
ONE of the few remaining “blind spots” in the field of Pacific botanical re search will be thoroughly covered during June, July and August by Dr.
Harold St. John, professor of botany at the University of Hawaii and botanist for the Bishop Museum of Honolulu.
Dr. St. John made a valuable collec tion of Fiji plants for the museum last year: this time he also will gather zoo logical specimens. He has chosen Rotu ma. of the Fiji group, because it is iso lated and unexplored from a botanical or zoological viewpoint. It is said to be one of the hottest, wettest and most tropical of the Pacific’s thousands of isles.
A grant from the Carnegie Corpor ation has made this projected expedi tion possible.