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Publications
The Hawaiian planter. By e. s.
Craighill Handy. Volume I. —His Plants, Methods and Areas of Culti vation. BP Bishop Museum Bulletin, 161, 227 pages, 8 plates, 21 figures, 1940.
An ethnologist presents a detailed and valuable account of Hawaiian agriculture before European discovery. He discusses in detail taro, sweet potato, yams and bananas; and gives notes on bread fruit, coconut, pandanus, kukui (Aleu rites), kou (Gordia), hau (Hibiscus
tiliaceus), wauke or paper mulberry (Broussonetia) , olona ( Touchardia ), awa ( Piper ), ti ( Cordyline or Taetsia), gourds, arrowroot, turmeric, bamboo, ilima ( Sida ), hibiscus, and pineapple. Details of native varieties are given; and exten sive bibliography and glossary,
Coleoptera From The Caroline
ISLANDS. By K. G. Blair. BP Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Vol. 16, No. 6, pages 131-157, 12 figures, December 10, 1940. A distinguished British Museum entomologist records 74 species of beetles from material collected by a Bishop Museum Micronesian expedition and
specimens in the British Museum. Of the species, 25 are described as new to science.
Report On A Collection Of
Samoan Coleoptera. By Elwood
C. Zimmerman. BP Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Vol. 16, No. 7, pages 159-176, 1 fig., January 22, 1941, In re cording 46 species of beetles from Tutuila, American Samoa, of which 10 are new records and four new to science, the Bishop Museum entomologist makes the point that the insect fauna of Samoa is far from adequately collected. He col lected the specimens here reported upon, in the foothills above Pago Pago Har bour, during about three hours’ stop over in 1938.
Many people in the South Pacific territories will learn with regret of the death of Colonel J. G. Koopman, which occured in Holland on February 11.
Colonel Koopman retired in 1930 from the Netherlands Indies Army, and re sided in Sydney from 1932 to 1939 as the representative of the Dutch Air Lines.
He was a man of charming personality and the embodiment of courtesy, and he was well-liked by all who met him in connection with Dutch Airways’ business.
Those who knew Colonel Koopman in Australia can imagine how he hated living under the heel of the Nazis in Holland.