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JUDGING from correspondence which has recently appeared in Science, some misunderstanding as to the purpose and position of the Pacific Entomological Survey has arisen. A brief statement relating to the Survey appeared in NATURE of January 29, 1938, p. 196. Mr. E. P. Mumford, director of the Survey, in connexion with the Hope Department of Entomology, University Museum, Oxford, has been for some years working out the collections with the co-operation of specialists in all parts of the world. More than two hundred papers have already been submitted for publication in Hawaii and elsewhere. It is important to recognize that the work at Oxford was made possible by grants from the Leverhulme Trustees and the British Museum (Natural History); the name “Pacific Entomological Survey” was used to maintain the continuity of the work, and will not be used in connexion with the present investigations associated officially with Oxford. The only object in view is to obtain, and make known, facts which will help in elucidating the problems of the Pacific Islands; the Marquesan collections and certain other material now under the charge of Mr. Mumford will be deposited in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, when the final results have been obtained. To further this end the Hope Department of Entomology of the University of Oxford, by means of grants from the University for five years from October 1938, from the Royal Society and the British Association, and from private benefactors, is obtaining from sundry little-known islands in the Pacific, new collections which it is hoped will aid in elucidating problems revealed by the Marquesan work that Mr. Mumford has been completing at Oxford.
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Pacific Entomological Survey. Nature 144, 826 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144826b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144826b0