The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-29
THE PACIFIC
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ton appears to have as yet taken place,
and it is safe to presume that, unless
some altogether unexpected factor
arises within the region itself, this will
long remain stationary. There are, how
ever, evidences which suggest that the
Hawaiian coral reefs are not in such a
vigorous condition of growth as form
erly.
Advantages of Honolulu for Pacific Elk
ploration.
Situated in mid-Pacifc, Honolulu af-
fords the best center from which this
great work can advantageously be con-
Quoted. The foundation of the Pacific
Scientific Institution proves that the OPP
portunity of this favored city is appre-
ciated by it's inhabitants, and that the
work which has lain so long neglected
will soon be commenced.
With headquarters at Honolulu, il is
proposed to dispatch parties of trained
workers upon a specially equipped vessel
to the various island groups. At con-
'venient centers, substations will be
established, through which communica-
ton with the home Office may be main
tanned. Each expedition will consist
of corps of experts, who will carefully
record all that is found of sufficient in
terest to preserve. A careful and elab-
crate series of anthropOmetric data will
be tabulated; the languages, religion,
law, mythology, legend, and genealogy
of each people will be recorded; their
technology, art, and medicine will be
exhaustively studied. Series of mann
mails, birds, reptiles, insects, and bot
anieal specimens win be preserved; the
coral reef, the marine fauna and flora,
the ocean currents, the geology and the
meteOrology, will all be investigated,
until the whole realm of nature has
yielded up its store of scientific data
It is anticipated that the work of ex-
ploration will be completed in fifteen
years. AS soon as they can be pub
lished, exhaustive accounts upon the
zoology, and botany of said
groups will be issued The most impor-
tant work of publication win be de-
ferred until all the data of the various
expeditions have been received and re-
duced to order Under the assistance
of the foremost scientists of America
and Europe, the records of the whole
exploration will be then examined and
The publication Of these
final volumes will probably rank as one
of the most interesting and important
additions to human knowledge that has
ever emanated from a single press.
During the fifteen years in which the
exploration is in progress, many other
scientific institutions viii be establish
ed by the central one. supplemental to
its work. Of these, one of the most
important will be a botanical garden
and garden of acclima tization, in which
viii be grown and studied many of the
important plants procured by the col
lectOrs. The production of new and i'm.
proved varieties of tropical fruits and
flowers win be an important work of
this department and one which should
make it famous throughout the world.
Wien it is considered that our pres
ent varieties of such fruit as the apple
have oeen evolved by careful selection
during many generations, the future of
many tropical fruits which have as yet
not similarly been operated upon seems
almost limitless. The unrivaIed situa-
ton of Hawaii and the diversity of
climate available from sea-level to
mountain peak should in time render a
botanical garden established there as
beautiful as any in the world.
A geological garden for the reception
of the Pacific mammals and reptiles, in
GLIDING an aviary to accommodate its
rare and wonderful birds. will also be
4 wholly untrodden field
of practical research awaits the eco