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fighting these pests owing to the crowded state of the shelves and 

 the want of suitable and permanent cases. While the library re- 

 mains as it is, stored in the old cases in the basements, these dis- 

 advantages will only be overcome by great expenditure of time 

 and labor. The arrangement and classification of the Library also 

 suffers through the same over-crowding, and it is to be hoped that 

 the new cases to be placed in Hawaiian Hall will soon arrive and 

 be erected. At present, to provide room it is found necessary to 

 box those books for which there is less call, and store them in other 

 parts of the Museum. 



The Library was established for assisting the Museum staff in 

 researches, but free use has also been offered to and taken advan- 

 tage of b}' scientific gentlemen in these islands who have come to 

 the Museum for study. Respectfully, 



John F. G. Stokes, 



Acting Librarian. 



ATTENDANCE OF VISITORS. 



If it were possible to make a table of the apparent intelligence 

 of the visitors the results would be most interesting. I do not think 

 any visitors study the collections more carefully than the Chinese. 

 The Hawaiian attendance is largeh^ of school children, and the 

 Portuguese and Japanese is mosth' from the laboring classes. 

 Some visitors not only stay all day but come repeatedly, while the 

 average tourist perhaps spends half an hour or less in a glance at 

 the rooms, for the colledlions seem to them to be merely furniture 

 to these. It will be seen that the Museum was open to visitors 

 150 days, or nearly half the time, omitting Sundays. No damage 

 was done by any visitor, and all were orderly and observant of 

 rules as in any communit}'. 



The attendance of school children perhaps needs some regula- 

 tion that they ma^- get the greatest possible good from their visits 

 to the Museum and cause the least possible annoyance to the other 

 visitors. Not more than twenty in a class, and not more than two 

 classes at once should be allowed ; and the teachers who come with 

 them should be competent to give some instrucftion to the pupils. 



