6 Director s An7iual Report. 



have used it. This was followed by the Annual Report, and the 

 year closed with the publication of the fourth and last part of 

 Volume II of the Memoirs, a brief history of the volcanoes Kilauea 

 and Mauna Loa on Hawaii. Of course there has been the usual 

 large amount of label work and the miscellaneous printing the 

 Museum requires. It has been a great hindrance having the 

 presswork done in town, and it will be a matter for early consider- 

 ation whether we should not make better work in the new printery 

 on a hand press ; if the work is to still be done in town a much 

 larger font of type should be provided, as forms are locked up and 

 delayed in town beyond reasonable measure. Lest this should 

 seem a reversion to ancient methods, let us remember that the 

 finest work has always been done on the old hand press, and this 

 is universally used for the proofs of the half tone engravings which 

 form so large a part of modern illustration. The printing of a 

 volume on Kapa-making has already been arranged, and it is 

 thought that this will be ready during 19 lo as Volume III of the 

 Memoirs. The illustrations have many of them been made in 

 Vienna in color and are faithful reproducflions of the beautiful 

 kapi still existing in this Museum and in the Director's private 

 coUecftion, which includes most of those Cook brought home. 

 Unfortunately under the tariff these plates which will cost nearly 

 five dollars a set, are subject to a dut\- of 259^, although the}' 

 could not be made of such quality in America at present. 

 Dcpart))icnt of lithnolooy . 



In the Department of Polynesian Ethnology Mr. J. F. G. 

 Stokes, the Curator, has continued his studies of the curious 

 Hawaiian fish-traps and conservation ponds and his results appear 

 later in this series. Mr. Stokes has also spent some time on 

 Molokai surveying the remains of the ancient hciaxi or temples, 

 and while thus engaged found time to make colleclious of great 

 value, among them a collecflion of plants and the curious and little 

 known Kalaina wawae, specimens of which, given hy Mr. George 



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