Vol. 22, No.1 August 1989

A Journal. of the University of Gualll DEVOTED TO THE NATURAL SCIENCES OF MICRONESIA AND RELATED AREAS

CONTENTS

1 Editorial: back on schedule .............................. C.S. Lobban

Anthropology 3-22 Population history of Nauru: a cautionary tale ........... J. H. Underwood

Biology 23-63 An annotated list of the vascular plants of Puluwat Atoll ................ .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . H. I. Manner & E. Mallon 65-106 Biological control activities in the Marianas Islands from 1911 to 1988 .....

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Nafus & I. Schreiner 107-118 Notes on the Herpetofauna of Tinian, Mariana Islands .................. .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. J. Wiles, A. B. Amerson, Jr., & R. E. Beck, Jr. 119 Announcement: Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds ..................... . 121-122 Book review: Catalog of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Philippines and

Philippine Seaweeds (Reviewed by C. S. Lobban)

MICRONESICA

A Journal of the University of Guam Devoted to the Natural Sciences in Micronesia

Founded by Benjamin C. Stone in 1964 Published twice a year

Editor: C. S. Lobban The Marine Laboratory, University of Guam

BQARD OF EDITORS

C. E. Birkeland Marine Laboratory University of Guam

L. G. Eldredge Bernice P. Bishop Museum Honolulu, Hawaii

F. R. Fosberg National Museum of Natural

History Smithsonian Institution

M. J. Levin Population Division U.S. Bureau of the Census

M. Marshall Department of Anthropology University of Iowa

J. E. Randall Bernice P. Bishop Museum Honolulu, Hawaii

R. H. Richmond Marine Laboratory, University of Guam

D. H. Rubinstein Micronesian Area Research Center University of Guam

B. C. Stone Department of Botany Academy of Natural

Sciences of Philadelphia

J. H. Underwood Department of Anthropology University of Arizona

MICRONESICA is a forum for original research in the fields of physical and social anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology; systematic and eco-logical botany and zoology, marine sciences, and related disciplines concerned primarily with Micronesia and adjacent regions.

Views expressed by the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the publishers, editors, printers, or the University of Guam.

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Editorial: Back on Schedule

Micronesica was put back on track by the last editor, Dr. Robert Richmond, who, in becoming Director of the Marine Laboratory of U.O.G., has passed the editorship to me. My most important task is to continue rebuilding and fully restore the professional reputa-tion of the journal, and I think that putting the journal back on a regular schedule is a key component of that mission. Micronesica will normally be published in June and De-cember. June issues will go to press in January, December issues in July. You will have noticed that this issue is thin. It could have been thicker had I waited for several manu-scripts that are in review or being revised, but I have made a commitment to the deadlines.

A special number will be published in this volume, containing reports from the Micronesican Archeological Conference held at the University of Guam in Sept. 1987.

The journal can only continue to function if you, as authors, have the faith in it to submit your manuscripts. My commitment therefore is not to the journal but to you: to process and publish manuscripts promptly and professionally.

-Chris Lobban