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size; in facl it is the plate most generally useful. The smallest, 

 4X5 is of great convenience for single objedls. One good 8X10 

 camera can be utilized for all these sizes in museum work, but for 

 the field two cameras 5X8 and 4X5 should be used; the smaller is 

 much the best for catching groups, peculiar postures or occupa- 

 tions. An experience of thirty-five years in pra(5tical photography, 

 photographic journeys in Central America and across the American 

 continent, camera work in the tropics and on mountain tops nearly 

 14,000 feet high, leads to the belief that 5X8 is the largest size to 

 be taken into the field, and that only for stereoscopic work or sev- 

 eral pictures one plate. For views the 4X5 size is ample, as with 

 a good enlarging camera all reasonable sizes can be obtained from 

 that. The slowest plates that the subjecft admits of are best. 



Prints for museum exchanges should be on bromide paper 

 unless needed for reproducftion in which case a smooth surface 

 silver print is more desirable. Bromide prints need no mounting 

 but can be bound dire(5tly as book plates or illustrations. 



In regard to exchanges we are unfortunately situated since 

 there are no European or American museums that have duplicates 

 from our region that we do not already possess. Exchanges of 

 photographs and of publications are however readily arranged, and 

 as soon as the Bishop Museum can issue the first part of its 

 Memoirs, exchanges will commence with nearly a hundred scientific 

 societies and museums whose publications are needed in our library . 



As to the installation of exhibits, no halls were found so 

 well lighted as ours or more accessible for visitors; no cases better 

 suited to the needs of this climate than those now in Polynesian 

 Hall. The iron cases in the Berlin Museum are excellent, but 

 although more expensive are certainly not ornamental. The sys- 

 tem of plate glass shelves there in use has been discontinued owing 

 to the great expense and liability to breakage in readjusting ex- 

 hibits, disadvantages found to more than counterbalance economy of 



For a studio camera I have found the American Optical Co. No. 22 Imperial camera, 

 8x10 size with Waterbury curtain slide holder the most convenient. It is sold by the Scovill 

 and Adams Co., New York. 



