Spreading the Pacific word

Pacific word

AT no time since European man came into the Pacific has the area been paid so much scientific attention as right now. You name any form of investigation—some one is carrying it out, in some island between Capricorn and Cancer; and, what is more, is writ ing about it.

Two new journals to help carry the word are Micronesica, the journal of the College of Guam; and The Journal of the Papua and New Guinea Society which is published in association with the University of Papua and New Guinea.

Micronesica has been on the scene longer—since 1964—and is somewhat more broadly based— it is a “forum for original re search in the fields of physical and social anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, systematic botany, systematic zoology, ecology, marine sciences and re lated disciplines”. It is primarily concerned with Micronesia but it also ventures into Polynesia and Asia with which Micronesia probably has far more affinities than has the rest of the Pacific.

To date two issues of the journal have been produced.

Manuscripts should be sent to Dr.

L. G. Eldredge, College of Guam, Box EK, Agana, Guam. Subscrip tion is SUS 3 per annum and should be sent direct to the College of Guam.

The Papua and New Guinea Society concerns itself with P-NG’s past and the study of traditional cultures and cultural change and also with the present state of affairs and future develop ments. Its journal deals with subjects within this general frame work.

It is proposed to publish twice yearly. Vol. 1, No. 1, covers the summer of 1966-67.

Manuscripts should be sent to the editor, at PO Box 172, Port Moresby, Papua.

Membership of the society is SA3 per annum for ordinary members, SAIO for corporate members. (Associate and student members pay SAI and 25c respec tively, but do not receive free copies of the journal or other society publications).