Gilbert Islands
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Scientific Work on Gilbert Islands
ETHNOBOTANY of the Gilbert Islands, by Dr. Katharine Luomala, anthropologist with the University of Hawaii and As sociate in Anthropology with Bernice P. Bishop Museum, has recently been published by the Museum.
Dr. Luomala made a study of the culture of the island of Tabiteuea, in the Gilbert group, from August to December, 1948. As a by-product of this study, she collected more than 640 Gilbertese names for plants and their varieties and parts. She now presents a record of some 47 species of plants found
growing in the Gilbert Islands, to gether with an annotated check list of all of the Gilbertese names, with all the data she could learn about them.
In addition, she gives a concise, up-to-date geographical, political and historical account of the Gil bert Islands, and summarises the knowledge previously recorded or observed regarding Gilbertese plants, both published and unpub lished names compiled by Bauro Ratieta, H. E. Maude, and the Gil bertese on Canton Island; the pub lished accounts of the United States
Exploring Expedition, C. M. Wood ford, G. H. Eastman, H. N. Dixon, Hiram Bingham, Jr., and several others. Reference is given to 67 publications she examined.
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H Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibney and chil dren left Port Moresby on the April Bulolo. He has been with the Crown Law Office for several years and is now leaving Moresby per manently. The family will reside in Brisbane.