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Archival Resources of the Fiji Arthropod Survey

Material listed here are historical resources (primarily deriving from the Bishop Museum Library/Archives) that can be used to augment or assist biological studies in Fiji. These will be available for free as Bishop Museum Technical Reports and/or as downloadable pdf files.

E.H. Bryan, Jr. Whitney South Seas Expedition Field Notes (1924) (Bishop Museum Technical Report 37)
Entire Report (x + 322 pp.) [ Whitney Journals Home Page ]


E.H. Bryan's List of Insects of Fiji (1924) (based on material in Fiji Dept. Agriculture and Lautoka insect collections)
List of Insects [ pdf ]

Godeffroy Museum Catalogs [see Evenhuis (2007) for details]
Catalog I (1864) (31 pp.) [ pdf - 1.4 MB]*
Catalog II (1865) (iv + 33 pp.) [ pdf - 2.6 MB ]
Catalog III (1866) (xii + 52 pp.) [ pdf - 4.2 MB ]
Catalog IV (1869) (xxxix + 139 pp.) [ pdf - 6.5 MB ]
Catalog V (1874) (xxxvi + 215 pp.) [ pdf - 14.7 MB ]
Catalog VI (1877) (v + 108 pp.) [ pdf - 11.4 MB ]
Catalog VII (1879) (viii + 99 pp.) [ pdf - 2.5 MB ]
Catalog VIII (1881) (18 pp.) [ pdf - 665KB ]
Catalog IX (1884) [ pdf ]

* [thanks to Rüdiger Bieler for this volume and allowing it to be posted here]

Graeffe, E. 1868. Reise im Innern der insel Viti-Levu. 48 pp., 1 pl., 2 maps [from Google Books] [ pdf - 4.1 MB ]

This page last revised 24 July 2012