The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-14
IS HONORED
BY OXFORD
Mr., Perkins Receives
Degree OF Doctor
of Science.

Honolulu acquires reflected dfstinc-
ton from the comforting upon one OF
it's resident scholars the degree OF
of Oxford. DR.. r. C. L. Perkins, as
he is now entitled to be addressed,
is the recipient of this great honor
1t is a very recent event. for DR..
Perkins has not yet received his parch-
ment. That the diploma of a D. Sc.
has been awarded to him by the IA
nous English university mentioned is
a fact which has been privately com
municated to him from England. 1t
is said, also, that it has been published
in the London Times, though DIR. Per-
kins was not aware of such publication
when seen by an Advertiser reporter
last night at his residence in Bates
street
Il presume the degree has been con-
ferred upon me for research DR.. Per
kins said when questioned. Most
probably it is for my Hawaiian work,
covering a period of fifteen years.
AS to the scientific labors of DR..
Perkins in these islands, they have
peen exhaustive and their outcome, in
literary form, makes a monument
,I6eIy 10 endure as long as letters. Be
sides the special work for which his
alma mater now honors him; DR..
Perkins has for some years past been
performing invaluab bic services for the
Hawaiian Government and the sugar
planting industry. Graduating from
Oxford about 1890 as Bachelor of Sci
ence, the graduation degree of the sci
entific course, he was later made a
Matser OF Arts by that university.
This in the English custom, is a post
graduate degree conferred without
examination. Now he receives the
highest title in science from the same
source as Il recognition of his achieve
ments
The year after his graduation, or
about 1891, DR. Perkins was sent to
the Royal Society of London, the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science and the Bernice Pa
uahi Bishop Museum of Honolulu, to
investigate the land fauna of the
group. Sea life was not included in
his commission. He made complete
years, among the animals, birds,
shells, insects, etc, found in the is
lands
Four beautiful quarto volumes, pro-
fusely frustrated. OF Fauna Hawaii
ensis,'' With other volumes of the
same work yet to come from the
press, form the result of his Hawaiian
researches for the distinguished com
mittee just mentioned 1t is printed
at the University Press of Cambridge.
One-half of the output of the work
comes to the Bishop Museum, but the
books are not in the local market.
Being imported free of duty for their
scientific character they can not be
sold. The Museum employs them in
exchange for other scientific works and |
they are supplied to the Honolulu Lii
brary. Although the articles in |
Fauna Hawaiiensis'' are written sew |
orally by fifteen or twenty specialists, !
they are all based upon the researches |
of DR.. Perkins and he is also among |
the writer's hinSelf for no small por-
ton of the work.
Some years ago Dr. Perkins entered ,
the employ of the Government OF Ha-
waii under the Board OF Agriculture,
as associate entomologist with Prof.
l> oebele. the eminent specialist who !
has rendered services of untold value
to the agricultural interests of Cali
fornia and Hawaii. Not long ago he |
from the public service to be
come director of the division of en-
tomology of the experiment station of !
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Associ
alton. A year or so ago he performed
a successful quest of beneficial para
sites in the islands of the South Seas.
Besides contributing many fugitive
articles to the agricultural periodicals
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