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On Tuesday evenin^y, May I4tb, the library room of the Board 

 was used for a meeting of the Hawaiian Poultry Association. 



The work in the Nursery and at the Xuuanu Forest Station 

 has gone on as usual during the fortnight. 



Very respectfully, 



Ralph S. Hosmer, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



July 29, 1907. 

 Board of Commissioners of 



Agriculture and Forestry, 



Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit the following report 

 covering the routine work of the Division of Forestry from ■May 

 15, 1907, to date. 



During this period my own time has been taken up as follows : 

 From May 14 to May 25 T was on Maui, making a trip around 

 the West Maui mountain, in company with Mr. S. M. Kanakanui 

 of the Survey Office, establishing points on the boundarv of the 

 proposed forest reserve in that section. Mr. Kanakanui '-pent the 

 greater part of Ji^^rie and part of July in locating and marking the 

 points selected. As soon as the technical description is received 

 from the surveyor a report on this project will be submitted to 

 the Board. 



On May 28 and 29, in company with Mr. H. M. von Holt, and 

 Mr. O. L. Sorenson, of the Survey Office, I visited the land of 

 Honouliuli on this island to fix the points on the proposed forest 

 reserve on the Waianae Mountains where the boundarv crosses 

 this land. Mr. Sorenson later located these points. Th<" matter 

 will' be reported on to the Board in the near future. 



During the first part of June I was in Honolulu engaging with 

 various routine matters incident to the Na Pali-Kona (KauaiJ 

 and Koolau (Maui) Forest Reserves, to the completion of a list 

 of foreign seed exchanges, to matters connected with the close 

 of the biennial fiscal period and with other details connected with 

 the regular work of the Division. 



From June 18 to July 3 I was on the Island of Hawaii engaged : 

 (t) in an inspection of the w^ork of the Hawaiian Mahogany 

 Lumber Company, undertaken at the request of the Trustees of 

 the Bishop Estate, under the offer of assistance contained in Cir- 

 cular No. I of this Division. This examination had' been pro- 

 jected for some tim.e and had more than once been unavoidablv 

 postponed. (2) In an examination of the land of Piihonua, made 

 at the request of the Commissioner of Public Lands. 



Since my return to Honolulu I have been engaged in the prep- 

 aration of reports on various forest reserves and other projects 



