6 Director s Annual Report. 



Thompson's workshop has caused considerable loss of casts and no 

 little delay in his work. 



During the year the Museum Printing Office has been con- 

 stantly employed, and the t^'pographical beauty of the publications 

 attests the skill and industr}- of our one printer. Bryan's Key to 

 the Hawaiian Birds has been issued as Memoir No. 3, and besides 

 the Annual Report, a description of new Hawaiian Fishes by 

 Mr. Scale as No. 4 of the Occasional Papers. Memoir No. 4, on 

 Hawaiian Stone Implements, is more than half printed and will be 

 issued in the first half of 1902. The demand for the publications 

 has increased in a gratifying manner. 



Late in the 3-ear Mr. vSeale started on his second expedition, 

 this time to the southeastern Pacific. He has already spent a 

 month on Makatea, of the Paumotu archipelago, where he made 

 photographs and notes of the process of kapa-making, as this island 

 was once the centre of the kapa industry in the Paumotus, but now 

 has quite given up the interCvSting manufadlure, although Mr. Scale 

 found skilled old women who made kapa for him. Evidently it 

 will not be long before, the old women gathered to their fathers, 

 the art will be lost. A considerable collection of fish w^as made in 

 Tahiti, and from that island our explorer will proceed to the 

 Tubuai, Gambler, Hervey, Marquesas, Samoan groups, whence 

 we are looking for abundant treasures on his return. 



In the Ethnological department the acquisitions are fully shown 

 in the list appended. In the other departments of Natural History 

 the gentlemen in charge have prepared similar lists. 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



To THE Director: — 



During the 3'ear igoi the library of the Museum has been in- 

 creased by the addition of 299 volumes and 530 parts and pamphlets 

 acquired principall}' by exchange of publications, also by gift and 

 purchase. 



Since the foundation of this library efforts have been made to 

 secure all the available material relating to the early voyages in 



