Volume II
Number 2
February 1963

c/o DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
HONOLULU 14 'HAWAII

president’s message

Maxwell S. Doty

The editor of the News Bulletin has asked that the incoming President of the
Society provide a "State of the Society" message or a key-note speech for this issue.
The State of the Society can be given easily. It is in a splendid state and under
the past few Presidents steps have been taken of increasingly large size toward im-
proving the Society. A botanist in Washington, who is very active nationally and
internationally, wrote back when approached recently about renewing his membership
with "Well, I used to be a member, but the Society hasn't been doing much until
lately." However, we got him to renew his membership easily with a copy of the News-
letter and knowledge of the present state of the Society.

We should be able to coast along to a fine conclusion this year on the splen-
did start given, and we could easily keep up the growth rate if it were linear with
time. However, I don't see how one officer, or even the whole executive committee,
can continue alone the rather logarithmic increase in activities our previous officers
have initiated toward making the Society more active and functional. It would seem
that this year's executive committee is going to be busy doing just what its title
indicates, with this "execution" being largely of things initiated in recent years.

As to the ever increasing pace, that is the problem.

Whether you are a tourist in the islands tossing rice grains to the sparrows

at the Halekulani, having a picnic with the kids on the grass at Ala Moana Park, or

grubbing your way up (and it is always "up", isn't it?) the Koolaus as a Trail and
Mountain Clubber, botany demands a great amount of your attention and determines a
great deal of the success of the venture. You don't., have to be an industrialist in
cane, coffee or pine to realize that botany is a pre-eminent activity here. This is
the Society to which those interested in the more academic aspects of botany should
turn for scientific leadership, and I hope the Eociety can provide this leadership.

Various procedures could lead to enhancing the role of the Hawaiian Botanical

Society this year. Quite naturally the procedures and success will depend upon the

compliment of abilities your executive committee can bring to bear; so... Please join
these activities in one way or another. We must have more people active to put into
effect the ideas and activities outlined and initiated in the past; though, of course,
\tfe need new ideas too.

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 26 February 1963

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE (Continued from page 25)

Individuals like yourself can help with little effort by reporting and provid-
ing liason between the Hawaiian Botanical Society and the other plant oriented orga-
nizations. In doing this bring in suggestions as to how the Botanical Society might
help the other Societies attain their botany-related objectives. News of botanically
significant events or visitors should be reported to a member of the Botanical Society
Newsletter Committee (See list elsewhere in this issue).

Actually, making the Newsletter better is bound to improve the Society in the
State by broadening the base of awareness among Botany's friends and disciples. This
will be especially true if we can get the Newsletter to the right people --people who
are interested in the scientific botany of our Hawaii. The Newsletter is distributed
to all members of the Society; so another way you can help your Society is by seeing
that these people become members of the Society. Tell Dr. Louis Nickell (HSPA Experi-
ment Station; 64-543) about people who should see the Newsletter each month as mem-
bers: he is the Chairman of our Membership Committee.

This very well may turn out to have been the year when the Botanical Society
developed the use of this Newsletter. It has been suggested that some members of the
Society may want to mark some particular item in some- copy of the Newsletter and send
it with a covering letter to some particular person. Contact any of the members of

the Executive Committee with your ideas for improving the use of the Newsletter.

Your executive committee suggests the Society consider new activities: <2. ,

a summer foray to Kapapa Island on the reef in the mouth of Kaneohe Bay. What are
your ideas? It has been suggested that the meetings in addition to their present
features include a compliment to the main speech of the evening in the way of a brief
scientific display of techniques, organisms and botanical objects that are Hawaiian.
This would be the continuation of a practice initiated by Dr. Harold Lyon during one

of his latter active years with the Society. Let's keep up and even amplify the

shows of interesting plants, even we can't out do Oscar Kirsch. Again, what are your
ideas? All these things should go to making this Society more than a turning wheel.

In other words this year let us amplify the Society's velocity in addition to increas-
ing speed. "Velocity," scientifically speaking as apposed to "speed," means adding
direction to the Society's motion with your help.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

Dr . Albert J. Bernatowicz, Associate Professor of Botany and General Science,
presented one of the University's world affairs public lectures. His topic was "Cam-
bridge University, England." Dr. Bernatowicz spent a term at Cambridge last year
studying the history and philosophy of science. His field of specialization is phy-
cology.

Dr . & Mrs . Harry F. Clements donated a total of $10,000 to the Library for
the purchase of books. Various amounts have been given during the past few years,
with the most recent one of $1,500 bringing it to the completed amount. The income
from the Harry F. & Louise M. Clements Library Book Fund will be used to purchase
books not provided for in the library's regular budget. Dr. Clements is Senior Plant
Physiologist at the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station and has been with the
University since 1937. He is well known as the originator of the crop logging system
and as an authority on sugar cane culture.

A collection of economic tropical plants is being propogated at the Waimanalo
research farm of the H.A.E.S. This project is under the direction of Dr . Robert M.
Warner, Professor of Horticulture.

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February 1963

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 27

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII (Continued from page 26)

The judges of the Science Fair next month will be: H. F. Clay (chairman),

T . Sheehan, J , Brewbaker , T . Murashige, R. Warner, Y. Nakagawa, W . Yee, R . rRomanowski,
and J . Tanaka .

Dr. James Cameron, Senior Scholar in Horticulture (East-West Center) will deli-
ver a lecture entitled "Citriculture in California" to the Nurserymen's Association
on January 29 at 7:30 p, ra. in Henke Hall 200,

Dr . Newton E. Morton, Chairman-designate of the Department of Genetics, is in
Hawaii for a two weeks' period to make plans for, the coming academic year. The depart-
ment moved from Dean - Hall to the recently completed Health Research Institute Building
last month. He returns to his National Institutes of Health research programs in Bra-
zil early this mouth and will be back in Hawaii in June.. Prior to accepting the
appointment at the University as Professor of Genetics, he was at the University of
Wisconsin, where he obtained his doctorate. Dr. Morton received his B. A. from the
University of. Hawaii in 1951 and is married to the former Nancy Okazaki of Honolulu.
Last year the Human Genetics Society presented him the William Allen Award for being
the outstanding human "geneticist of the world. This is the second time that the award
has been conferred. '■

Four Master of Science degrees in Botany will be awarded by the University at
the end of the Fall 1962-63 semester. The recipients and their thesis topics are:

Mr. Aprilany 3oegiarto, Bogor , Indonesia, "Primary productivity of benthic
algae in- a tropical bay (Hanauma Bay)."

Mr. Tadayuki Kato, Kapaa, Kauai, "An anatomical investigation of the arboreus
Hawaiian Nyctaginaceae. "

Miss Tiamjai Komkris, Bangkok, Thailand, "The structure and ontogeny of
Euphorbia, Degeneri Sherff." : :

Miss Rastini Rasid, BOgor, Indonesia,, "Phenology and floral ontogeny of the
skunk tree, Sterculia foetida Linnaeus."

Mr. Soegiarto worked under the direction of Dr. Maxwell S. Doty, and the other
three students, with Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux.

Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux of the Department of Botany, University of Hawaii,
will be attending a conference in Chicago on February 2-3, 1963. The conference,
sponsored by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study of the American Institute of
Biological Sciences, is concerned with in-service institutes to prepare high school
biology teachers in the teaching of BSCS Biology. : ;

Dr. Harold B. Tukey, retired Head of the Department of Horticulture at Michigan
State University is in Honolulu for three months, serving as a consultant to the -
Institute of Advanced Projects at the East-West Center* t ,

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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII! (Continued from page 27)

SPRING SEMESTER COURSES (February 5 - June 12, 1963). Registration is from February
5-9, and instruction begins on February 11.

Department of Botany : Bot 101, General (G. Fogg & H. Whittier) ; Bot 103,

Evolution (G. Fogg); Bot 160, Flower & Tree Identification (T. Cooperrider) ;

Bot 399, Problems (Staff); Bot 412, Microtechnique (C. Lamoureux) ; Bot 425,

Nonvascular Plants (H. Whittier) ; Bot 430, Mycology (L. Olive) ; Bot 461, Taxonomy
& Exploration (T. Cooperrider); Bot 470, Principles of Plant Physiology (J. Lockhart);
Bot 571, Advanced Physiology (B. Cooil); Bot 573, Techniques of Physiology (E. Putman);
Bot 610, Seminar (L. Olive) ; Bot 612, Advanced Problems (Staff) ; Bot 615, Morphology
Seminar (C. Lamoureux); Bot 665, Nomenclature (M. Doty); Bot 675, Physiology Seminar
(£. Cooil); Bot 684, Phycology (M. Doty); Bot 699 and Bot 799, Directed Research
(Staff) .

Department of General Science : Sci 121, Introduction to Science (E. A. Kay) ;

Sci 530, History of Science (A. J. Bernatowicz) ; Sci 620, Science as a Human Activity
(E. A. Kay); and Sci 651, Science for Secondary School Teachers (M. Frodyma) .

Zoology 602, Preparation of Scientific Manuscripts (L. Tuthill).

Department of Genetics : Gen 518, Cellular Genetics (J. B. Smith) ; Gen 618,

Cytogenetics (C. Rick) ; Gen 625, Advanced Topics (S. Stephens) ; Gen 654, Seminar
(Staf f) .

Depar tment of Agronomy (and Soil Science) : Agron 502, Principles of Agronomy

(0. Younge) ; Agron 503, Range Management (P. Rotar) ; Agron 510, Sugar Cane (R. Fox) ;
and Agron 699, Directed Research (Staff).

Department of Horticulture : Hort 362, Principles of Tropical Pomology (R.

Warner) ; Hort 464, Orchidology (T. Sheehan) ; Hort 494, Systematic Vegetable Crops
(J. Gilbert); Hort 603, Experimental Design (J. Brewbaker) ; Hort 667, Horticulture
Seminar (T. Murashige) ; Hort 691, Crop Ecology (R. Warner) ; Hort 699, Directed Research
(Staff); and Hort 711, Special Topics (J. Brewbaker).

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Department of Plant Pathology: P Path 625, Advance Plant Pathology (R. Hine) ;

P Path 660, Seminar; and P Path 699, Directed Research (Staff).

The Department of Botany distributed 22 sets of the 29 most common brown
algae of Hawaii. There were not enough sets to go to all places desired, so the
distribution was made to the institutions where taxonomic work with tropical Phaeophyta
is currently leading to publication and the herbaria abundant in such materials.

Mr. Roy Tsuda, a senior major in botany, was the collector and preparator. This
work was performed under the direction of senior phycologists in the department to
insure taxonomic uniformity of the specimens distributed under any given number.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 29 February 1963

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SOCIETY MEETING

TIME: Monday, February 4 - 7:30 p. m.

PLACE: Agee Hall, Experiment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association,

1527 Keeaumoku Street, Honolulu.

SUBJECT: "Botanical aspects of a visit to Kenya."

SPEAKER: W. W. Goodale Moir , President of the Hawaiian Botanical Gardens Foundation,
Inc. Mr. Moir retired from American Factors in 1961 after serving for 36
years as an Agriculturist and Consultant. Prior to that time he was with
Pioneer Mill Co; and the HSPA Experiment Station. His fields of interest -
are horticulture, agriculture, orchids, and botanical gardens. He is a grad-
uate of Cornell University.

PIFICERS

President during the 1963 calendar year is Dr. Maxwe 11 S. Doty, Professor of Botany,
University of Hawaii. He received his bachelor’s and master's degrees from Oregon State
College, and his doctorate from Stanford. Coming to Hawaii in 1951 from Northwestern
University, he has concentrated his algal interests to the Pacific area. He is currently
Secretary of the Standing Committee on Pacific Botany of the Pacific Science Association
(as well as of its subcommittee on algae) and in charge of the intercalibration produc-
tivity work for the Indian Ocean Expeditions. At the University he is a member of: the
following faculty committees: Forestry, Hawaii Marine Laboratory Advisory Board, Advis-
ory Committee to assist with planning of new facilities for Coconut Island, and Nuclear
Science (co-chairman) . . . „

Oscar Kir sch is Vice-President, and is an orchid grower. His primary object at the
present time is to keep 50,000 orchid plants hale and hearty, with the least effort. Or-
iginally from Austria, where he attended the Austrian State School of Horticulture, he
has been employed by the Arnold Arboretum and other horticultural establishments before
coming to Hawaii. Besides belonging to numerous orchid societies, he is a member of the
Executive Committee, International Commission on Classification, Nomenclature, and Reg-
istration (World Orchid Conference). He is responsible for the attractive orchid dis-
plays at each Society meeting.

Secretary and Assistant Editor of the Newsletter is Dr. Toshio Murashige, who did
his undergraduate work at the University of Hawaii and his graduate work at Ohio State
University (M. S.) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph. D.). He is Assistant Professor
of Horticulture and Assistant Horticulturist (HAES) at the University of Hawaii. His
fields of interest are plant physiology, tissue culture, and growth substances. He has
three research grants- for research on the papaya replant problem:, organ differentiation
in plant tissue, and papaya growth inhibitors. He is one of the Science Fair judges
this year..-.. „ t : . y.’ ’ ;

William M. Bu sh has been Treasurer of the Society since 1940, and holds the distin-
ction of having a Society office for the longest period. He is Executive Vice-President
of Castle & Cooke, Inc. While a university student he served as an assistant and plant
collector for E. Christopherden on the Bishop Museum’s Tanager Expedition (Trip E) to
Nihoa and Necker Islands. On this trip 500 herbarium specimens were collected.

Serving on the Executive Committee after being President in 1962, Dr . Charles H.:
Lamoureux is also busy this year as Chairman- of the Department of Botany, University of
Hawaii. He visited the Leeward Islands in 1961 and Midway Atoll in December 1962. He
plans to write a paper on the botanical and natural history aspects of Midway. Other

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OFFICERjS (Continued from page /. )

research projects include the anatomy of Hawaiian lobelioids, survey of air-borne pol-
len, and plants of the Leeward Hawaiian Islands. Lamoureux received his B. S. from
the University of Rhode Island, his M. S. from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph. D.
from the University of California (Davis) . He is chairman of the Flora Conservation
Committee of the Conservation Council for Hawaii, the University's Campus Beautifica-
tion and Landscaping Committee and a member of the Arboretum Committee.

The other Executive Committee member is Alvin K. Chock, who is also Newsletter
Editor. He is a Plant Quarantine Inspector with the Agricultural Research Service,

U. S. Department of Agriculture, and also Assistant Botanist at the Bernice P. Bishop
Museum and Lecturer in Botany at the University’ of Hawaii. He did his undergraduate
work at Hannibal-LaGrange College (A. A.) and the University of Hawaii (B. A.), and
graduate work at the University of Hawaii (M. S.) and University of Michigan. Fields
of interest include taxonomy and ethnobotany. Chock is also Director of the Hawaiian
junior Academy of Science and a member of the Flora Conservation Committee of the Con-
servation Council for Hawaii. Current research includes Pacific Island flora check
lists and a textbook on Hawaiian ethnobotany.

Dr. Louis G. Niclcell is Chairman of the Membership Committee. He is Principal
Physiologist & Biochemist at the HSPA Experiment Station. Nickell received his doc-
torate from Yale University, and his fields of interest are chemical control of growth,
tissues and cell culture, plant growth regulators, antibiotics, economic botany, plant
nutrition, and atypical growth. Prior to his arrival in Hawaii in 1961, he was Head of
the Phytochemical Laboratory at Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc.

Kalfred K. Yee is a member of the Membership Committee. He is President-Manager
of Garden City, Inc,, and Exotics Hawaii, Ltd. His fields of interest are botanical
gardens and orchids. Yee received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii
and did graduate work at the University of Michigan. Besides belonging to several
orchid and nurserymen's organizations, he is president of the Honolulu Orchid Society.

The other member of the Membership Committee is Dr. James L. Brewbaker , Associate
Professor of Horticulture and Associate Horticulturist (HAES) , University of Hawaii.

His projects, supported by research grants, include pollen cytogenetics and physiology,
corn breeding, and radiation botany. He is co-chairman of the university's faculty
committee on Nuclear Science. He studied at Southern Methodist University, Texas Uni-
versity, Colorado University (A. B.) and Cornell University (Ph. D.). Prior to coming
to Hawaii in 1961, he was with the Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Phi-
lippines, and University of Lund, Sweden.

ORGANIZATION NOTES

President Doty made the following appointments at the January meeting: NEWSLETTER
COMMITTEE - Alvin K. Chock (chairman), Horace F. Clay, Robert W. Leeper , Toshio Mura-
shige, Louis G. Nickell, and Paul Weissich; REPRESENTATIVES TO THE CONSERVATION COUNCIL
FOR HAWAII - Ernest G, Holt and Donald Ander son (alternate); REPRESENTATIVES TO ISSEC
(Inter-Society Science Education Council) - Robert Coleman and Alvin K. Chock (alter-
nate) ; and PARLIMENTARIAN - E. J. Britten.

The Society has decided to deposit non-current files in the Hawaiian and Pacific
Collection, University of Hawaii Library. Miss Janet Bell, Curator, will maintain the
files. The file cabinet which housed the Society's files will also be deposited at
the University. This action was brought about after preliminary discussions on this
matter had taken place between Miss Beatrice Krauss and Miss Bell.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 31 February 1963

PLANT 5 U ARAN T I N E DIVISION

Kenneth L. Maehler , Pacific Region Supervisor, is visiting Hawaii's Plant Quar-
antine ports and stations. During this three weeks' trip he will visit Hilo for a
brief period and spend most of his time in Honolulu discussing procedures and opera-
tions with local supervisors and inspectors. He returns to San Francisco in early
February .

botanical notes

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: The first issue (No. I) of Conservancy West appeared in Decem-
ber 1962. This mimeographed newsletter is published by The Nature Conservancy's Wes-
tern Regional Office (Berkeley 9, California) and the first number covered activities
and events during the period from September to November 1962.

J . F . ROCK BIOGRAPHY : The article which appeared in the January issue of the Newsletter
will appear in the March 1963 issue of Taxon, the journal of the International Associa-
tion for Plant Taxonomy.

Dr . F. Raymond Fosberg of the U. S. Geological Survey and Editor of Atoll Research Bull-
etin (issued by the Pacific Science Board) will make an overnight stopover in Honolulu
on his way to. Guam this month. He will spend a few days in Hawaii before returning to
Washington, D. C. (Continued on page 35)

BERNICE P. BISHOP MUSEUM

PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CENTER: The Information Center, established in April
1960, and supported by a National Science Foundation grant, serves as a clearing house
for scientific information about the geography, natural and social sciences of the
Pacific area. Files are being compiled about Pacific scientists. Pacific data, bibli-
ography (the column "Recent Publications" in this Newsletter is incorporated into this
file) , and check lists of plants and animals . A list of Pacific anthropologists has
been published, and the one on botanists (last issued in August 1961) is being revised.

A series of publications have been issued on scientific facilities in Indonesia, Malaya,
Singapore, and Viet-nam, and a companion one for Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and
New Guinea is in preparation. The latter project has been endorsed by the South Paci-
fic Commission which is providing funds for a trip and facilities at its headquarters
in Noumea,

E._H. Bryan, Jr,, Manager of the Center, will spend a month visiting Tahiti,

New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Samoa in conjunction with this pro-
ject. The contents of the proposed publication includes a brief background of each
area, science education, available scientific manpower, scientific research institu-
tions and societies, scientific publications, and a summary of the work done by insti-
tutions outside of the area. The object of the trip is to discuss with informed
persons about the research institutions and activities of the various island areas.

EXCHANGES : The Herbarium distributed over 2,000 sheets of flowering plant and fern

herbarium specimens to eleven foreign and seven U.S, botanical institutions. These
shipments were made in continuation of the open exchange relations which the Museum
has with other herbaria* The plants had been collected in the Hawaiian Islands (both
windward and leeward), Samoa, Fiji, and Rotuma. All of the regular staff members
(Miss Marie C, Neal, Botanist; Mr, Alvin K. Chock, Assistant Botanist; and Fflrs. Annie
Ho Coker, Laboratory Assistant) were involved in the project, and Mr. Henry 0. Whittier,
Instructor in Botany, University of Hawaii, lent his assistance.

Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 32

February 1963

pacific science as sociati-of

TENTH PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS PUBLICATION PLANS: Various 10th PSC symposia papers and
reports are expected to be published early in 1963. These include: "Ancient Pacific
floras: the pollen story," Lucy M. Cranwell, editor (University of Hawaii Press, aided
by a grant from the State of Hawaii); "Pacific basin biogeography," (the four parts
are: Bering Arc relationships; Tropical relationships; Antartic relationships; and
Modification of biotic balance of island faunas and floras), J. Lins ley Gressitt , gen-
editor; "Plants and the migrations of Pacific peoples," Jacques Barrau, editor (Bishop
Huseum Press, aided by a National Science Foundation grant); and "Man's place in the
island ecosystem," F. R. Fosberg, editor (Bishop Museum Press, with financial assis-
tance of UNESCO and the State of Hawaii, through the University).

COMMENTS ON 10TH PSC RESOLUTIONS: When President Laurence H. Snyder forwarded the 10th
^SC resolutions to representative institutions of the PSA, he requested that they be
brought to the attention of appropriate scientific institutions in member countries.

|ome of the comments received are indicated below.

Resolution 10, on the importance of plant exploration; the Director of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, would be glad to receive good fully annotated material of wild rices.
Resolution 18, on the establishment of nature reserves for the preservation of the in-
digenous flora, particularly of the endemics, will receive the fullest support of Kew.
Surveys should be made and the richest areas selected for conservation, carried out by
local botanists with the assistance, if necessary, from botanists of other areas.
Resolution 20, on regional monographic floras, Kew is contributing on the identifica-
tion of collections and will have four botanists working on the plants of these areas,
including Borneo, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, Tonga and New
Zealand.

Resolution 8, on the establishment of a taxonomic survey of the coconut palm was ques-
tioned by Fiji because of the tremendous variability encountered and the possible
Spread of diseases through the exchange of seed nuts. They considered the establish-
ment of living collections worthwhile and perhaps the first step to be taken in the
working out of the taxonomy.

Resolution 17, Fiji called attention to the botanical gardens at Lae, New Guinea, and
stated that each of the larger territories should have a good botanic garden where col-
lections of native and introduced trees are maintained for study and for the education
and pleasure of the people.

TROPICAL CROPS IMPROVEMENT has been issued by the South Pacific Commission in mimeo-
graphed form. This 10th PSC symposia may be obtained from the SPC, Box 5254, G.P.O.,
Sydney, Australia, for $1.40.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON PACIFIC BOTANY: Dr. Jacques Barrau (Chairman, subcommittee on
qthnobotany) , South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia; Mr. A. Dilmy (Chairman,
Subcommittee on medicinal plants). Herbarium Bogoriense, Kebun Raya Indonesia, Bogor,
Indonesia; Dr. M. Si. Doty (Secretary of the committee). Department of Botany, Univer-
sity of Hawaii, Honolulu 14, Hawaii; Prof. Ramon Ferreyra, Museo de Historial Natural
".Javier Prado," Apartado 1109, Lima, Peru; Dr. F. R. Fosberg (Chairman of Committee),
Pacific Vegetation Project, c/o National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave.,

N. W., Washington 25, D. C.; Ing , Efraim Hernandez Xolocotzi, Escuela Nacional de
^gricultura, Laboratorio de Botanica Sistematica, Chapingo, Mexico; Dr. Elizabeth
McClintock (Chairman, subcommittee on the protection of nature in the Pacific), Dept,
df Botany, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 18, Calif.; Prof. M. E. D.
Poore, Dept, of Botany,. University of Malaya, Pantai Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.

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PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATIO N— ^ (Continued from page 32)

Prof. Robert F. Scagel (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific algology), Dept, of Biology
and Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B. C.; Prof . C. G. G. J. van
Steenis (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific plant areas) , Ri jksherbarium, Leiden, Nether-
lands; Dr. Mona Lisa Steiner (Chairman, subcommittee on vernacular names), Kempten
Allgau, Augartenweg 35, Germany; Mr. R. Story (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific plant
ecology), C.S.I.R.O., P. 0. Box 109., City, Canberra, A. C. T., Australia; Mr. Kasin
Suvatabandhu , Botany Dept., Chulalongkorn University, Phya Thai Road, Bangkok, Thailand;
Dr. Donald Walker (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific palynology) , Botany Dept., The
Australian National University, Box 4, G. P. 0., Canberra, A. C. T., Australia; Dr. E. H.
Walker (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific' bibliography) , 7413 Holly Ave., Takoma Park,
Maryland; Mr. D. E. Yen (Chairman, subcommittee on Pacific plant genetics), D. S. I. R.
Crop Research Division, Robinson Road, Otahuhu, New Zealand.

— ^ Pacific Science Association Information Bulletin 14(5/6), Septi/Nov. 1962.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

CHOCK, ALVIN K. , & DEAN C. .HAMILTON, JR. (Dec. 15) 1962. Plants of Christmas Island.
Atoll Res. Bui. 90: 1-7, map.

CLAY, HORACE F., & JAMES C. HUBBARD. 1962. Trees for Hawaiian gardens. Univ. Hawaii,
e.E.S. Bui. 87: 103 pp., 150 figs. $2.25.

This pictorial essay on ornamental horticulture and landscape uses of Ha-
waiian garden trees is the first of a series of Hawaiian garden books to
be published by the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of
Hawaii. The book is divided into five parts: growth (roots, structure,
bark, leaves, and fruit), use (balance, protection, anchors, and special
effects), landscape (the site, garden, cosmopolitan garden, Chinese garden,
Japanese garden, and Hawaiian garden), care (preparation, planting, pruning
and surgery), and selection (garden and street trees). The simple format,
and the outstanding photography by Fortunato Teho (Robert Wenkatn photo-
graphed the full-page plates) make it an attractive and artistic publica-
tion. The last portion describes briefly 125 species of trees, pointing
out the desirable and undesirable qualities of each as garden trees.

Dr . C lay , Associate Specialist in Horticulture and Associate Professor of
Horticulture, and Mr. Hubbard, Home Economist in Landscape Design, will
prepare two additional volumes in this series of plants for Hawaiian gar-,
dens: shrubs, vines, and ground cover. (AKC)

DARWIN, .CHARLES. (Dec. 15) 1962. Coral Islands. (with introduction, map and remarks
by D. R. STODDART). Atoll Res. Bui. 88: 1-20, 1 map, 4 figs.

DEGENER, OTTO, & ISA DEGENER. (Jan. 18) 1963. Flora Hawaiiensis. Vol. 6; 34pp., 14

figs. (Ceratopter is thalictroides , Doryopteris tryonii , Spenomeris chusana ,
Polys tichum Hillebr andii ; Pennisetum set o sum, Cladiumi.mariscus ■ ssp. jamai-
cense, Gahnia kauaidnsis , Rhynchdspora sclerioides:, Bpussingaultia , cor di-
folia, Magnolia, Pittosporum acuminatum (vars. Degeneri , . leptopodum,
magrii folium, and waimeaniim) , Fragaria, Bauhinia monandra , Dombeya , D.,

Burges side, and Rapanea sandwicensis (and var . mauiensis) , ;vi

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page 34 February 1963

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (Continued from page 33)

FOSBERG, F. R. , &M.-H. SACHET. (Dec. 15) 1962. Vascular plants recorded from Jaluit
Atoll. Atoll Res. Bui. 92: 1*=39.

FOSBERG, F. R., & M.-H. SACHET. (Dec. 15) 1962. Atoll news and comments. Atoll Res.

Bui. 94: 1-19. -

MARTIN, J. P., E. V. ABBOTT & C. G. HUGHES. (Editors). 1961. Sugar cane diseases of
the world. Vol. I. x + 542 pp., 22 color pis., 8 tabs., 145 figs.

I. St S. C. T. $29.75.

In 1956 the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists authorized
the preparation of a book about sugar cane diseases, to be prepared by
the scientist (s) with the specialized experience about the particular
pathogen. Because of the material accumulated, the material is to be pub-
lished in two volumes, with the second one appearing at a later date. Thi
is a technical publication on the principal diseases of sugar cane through
out the world, and is valuable to sugar cane growers in every country, as
well as to scientific institutions and universities. The first volume
begins with a discussion of the anatomy of the sugar cane plant, and con-
cludes with a list of sugar cane diseases and their world distribution.

The following diseases are discussed: gumming, leaf scald, red stripe,
brown stripe, downy mildew, eye spot, Fusarium sett or stem rot, leaf
scorch, pineapple disease, pokkah boeng, red rot, root rot, Sclerophthora
disease, smut, yellow spot, chlorotic streak, Fiji disease, mosaic, ratoon
stunting, streak, and phanerogamic parasites. Literature references
listed total 777. Editors of the volume are J. P. Martin, Principal
Pathologist, HSPA Experiment Station, Honolulu (who authored Sugar Cane
Diseases in Hawaii in 1938); E. V. Abbott , Principal Pathologist, A.R.S.,

U. Si Dept, of Agriculture; and C. G. Hughes , Senior Pathologist, Bureau

of Sugar Experiment Stations, Brisbane, Australia. (AKC & LGN)

CONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII2

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETINGS: February 6, 7:30 - 9:30 p.in., in Paki Hall (the building

nearest the Kalihi Street entrance and parking lot), Bernice P. Bishop Museum. All
Executive Board meetings Will be held at the same time on the first Tuesday of each
month at the Bishop Museum. Interested members and representatives of affiliated
organizations are urged to attend.

1963 EXECUTIVE BOARD : President - Dr_. Roland W. Force, Bernice P. Bishop' Museum;

Vice-President - Dr_. E. J. Britten, Dept, of Agronomy and Soils, University of Hawaii;
Secretary - Mr. Herbert R. Welder, Jr . , Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., P. 0. Box 3440,
Honolulu 1; Treasurer - Miss Irva Brubacker , c/o H. V. van Holt, 816 Fort Street,
Honolulu; Land Committee - Mr. Ray Hefty, Board of Water Supply, City and County of
Honolulu; Water Committee - Mr. Peter H. N. Kendall, Oahu Sugar Co., Ltd., Waipahu;
Flora Committee - Dr. Charles H. Lamoureux, Dept, of Botany, University of Hawaii;
^auna Committee - Dr. Hubert Frings, Dept, of Zoology, University of Hawaii; Sites
Committee - Mr_. Ted Damron, Dept, of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii,

E. 0. Box 621, Honolulu; Recreation Committee - Mr.. Lor in Gill, Palama Settlement,

810 North Vineyard St., Honolulu 17; Legislative Committee - Mr. William V. War d ,

Bank of Hawaii, 140 South King Street, Honolulu 13; Education Committee - Mr. Gunter
Seckel, Bureau of Commerical Fisheries (U.S, Fish & Wildlife Service), P. 0. Box 3830,
Honolulu 12; and Scenic Inventory Committee - Mr. Robert Wenkam, 3578 Waialae Avenue,
Honolulu 16.

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Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter - page — 35
CONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR

February 1963

HAW A I I 2 (Cont'd from page 34 )

SCENIC INVENTORY COMMITTEE : Members of this new committee are Robert G. Wenkam,

chairman ; Charles H. Lamoureux, Lor in T . Gill, Richard H. Davis, and David C . Sanford.
Maps are in preparation which will delineate boundaries of conservation zones for
watersheds, scenic areas, park lands, and related activities which should be protected
under the Land Use Law.

CONSERVATION COURSE: Geography 507, Conservation and Utilization of Natural Resources,

jLs being offered at the University of Hawaii during the Spring Semester. This is a
three-credit course.

STATE LAND USE BOUNDARIES: The suspense date for the proposed State Land Use boupd-

aries (Act 187) is January 11, 1963. After this date, until July 11, 1963, formal
public hearings will be held on possible modifications. Conservationists should pre-
pare themselves to defend the boundaries of the conservation zones.

CONSERVATION PROBLEMS to be presented to the Conservation Council for Hawaii should
be presented to the appropriate committee chairman (see list above), rather than to
the Executive Board. This method will allow the committee to study the matter con-
cerned thoroughly. Anyone desiring to participate in any of the committees should
contact the committee chairman concerned.

DUES for the Council are $1.00 per year and should be remitted to the Treasurer.

The Conservation Council for Hawaii is sponsoring a Conservation Conference to be
held at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Tuesday, February 12, 1963. While the pro-
gram had not been completed at press time, it will be similar in format to the State
Parks Conference sponsored last year by the Chamber of Commerece, and will include
both local and nationally known speakers.

The program will start at 8:30 A. M. and will last until about 2:30 P. M. The
registration fee will be $3.75, which includes the cost of the luncheon. For
further information watch the newspapers, or contact the Conservation Council for
Hawaii, c/o B. P. Bishop Museum. (Tel. 855-951).

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(In part) Newsletter, The Conservation Council for Hawaii, December 24, 1962.

BOTANICAL NOTES (Continued from page 31)

A recent letter from Dr. Richard S. Cowan says that he has almost abandoned the
life of a flowering plant taxonomist and has become Assistant Director of the
Museum of Natural History, U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D. C. The 'almost' is because he says, "I am still expected to do some research and
so far I have taken the time each week to do it and I will resist all attempts to
reduce ... me ... to the status of pencil-pushers." He expressed his delight in
meeting old fellow Hawaiian botanists as Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, Dr. Donald P.
Rogers, and Dr. W. H. Wagner, Jr. at the A.I.B.S. meetings at Corvallis. He also
expressed the thought that he should have come to Hawaii for the 10th Pacific
Science Congress. Both he and another Washingtonian-Hawaiian (Dr. F. Raymond
Fosberg of the U. S. Geological Survey) have requested reinstatement of their
memberships in the Society.

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HAWAIIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY
c/o Department of Botany, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 14, Hawaii

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT Maxwell S. Doty

(Dept. Botany, Univ. Hawaii)

VICE-PRESIDENT Oscar Kirsch

(Orchid Grower; 2869 Oahu Ave., Honolulu 14)

SECRETARY Toshio Murashige

(Dept. Hort., Univ. Hawaii)

TREASURER William M. Bush

(Castle & Cooke, Inc.,P.O. 2990, Honolulu 2)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Charles H. Lamoureux (Dept. Botany, U. H.)
Alvin IC. Chock (PQD, ARS, USDA; B.P. Bishop
■ * Museum; Dept. Botany, U. H.).

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE:

Louis G. Nickell (HSPA Experiment Station,
1527 Keeaumoku St., Honolulu 14, Hawaii)
Kalfred Yee (Garden City, Inc.)

James L. Brewbaker (Dept. Hort., U. H.) .

Thd HAWAIIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY was founded
in 1924 to "advance the science of Botany
£n all its applications , encourage research
in Botany in all its phases," and "promote
the welfare of its members and to develop
the spirit of good fellowship and coopera-
tion among them." "Any person interested in
the plant life of the Hawaiian Islands is
eligible for membership in this Society."

EDITORIAL STAFF

EDITOR Alvin K. Chock

ASSISTANT EDITOR Toshio Murashige

REPORTERS :

Charles H. Lamoureux (Dept. Bot., U. H.)
H. F. Clay (Dept. Horticulture, U. H.)
Robert W. Leeper (P. R. I.)

Louis G. Nickell (H.S.P.A. Expt. Sta.)
Paul Weissich (Foster Botanical Garden)

The Hawaiian Botanical Society Newsletter
is published monthly, except during the
summer months of July, August, and Sept-
ember. It is distributed to all Society
members and other interested individuals
and institutions, with the purpose of
informing them about botanical news and
progress in Hawaii and the Pacific. News
contributions and articles are welcomed.
The deadline for submission of news items
is the 20th of each month prior to pub-
lication.

Duplicated at the University of Hawaii and
Bernice P. Bishop Museum.

Membership Dues are $2.00 per calendar
year and include receipt of the Newsletter ,

HAWAIIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY
c/o Department of Botany
University of Hawaii
Honolulu 14, Hawaii

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