Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants and Animals of the Group

Abstract

THE suspicion that is awakened by the somewhat typical “American” puff that Prof. W. A. Bryan allows himself in the preface to the “Natural History of Hawaii” is dissipated when the book itself is read, and the author is to be congratulated on having produced a book that is at the same time readable, useful, and trustworthy. It gives the reader a very good general idea of the geology, geography, flora, fauna, and ethnology of the group, and it will be of especial value to residents who take an interest in the local natural history. There is a very large number of photographs, some of which are on top small a scale to be of any real use, while the details in others are lost on account of ordinary photographic, instead of orthochromatic (or similar), plates having been used. The voluminous indices are of great practical use.

Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the Geology and Geography of the Islands, and the Native and Introduced Plants and Animals of the Group.

By Prof. W. A. Bryan. Pp. 596. (Honolulu: The Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.; London: G. E. Stechert and Co., 1915.)