REPORT 



DURING the whole year 1910, work on the new Laboratory 

 building continued and on December 31, it was still incom- 

 plete. In spite of this necessary disturbance, the various 

 departments made fair progress. 



Mr. J. W. Thompson, our Modeler, has continued his very 

 excellent work in casting the fishes and coloring these casts in a 

 way that provoked from so competent a judge as President David 

 Starr Jordan, the statement that these painted casts were far better 

 than any paintings of fish he had seen for study and identification. 

 The same authority pronounced our collection of Hawaiian fishes 

 in casts of the greatest value. Many casts of fruit, and of stone 

 and wooden implements, have also been made. 



The record of the Printery is not impressive, although there 

 has been no lack of good work ; the onl}- publication issued was 

 the last Annual Report. This, in addition to the report, contained 

 in the appendix illustrated articles on Hawaiian Curved Adzes 

 by the Director ; Notes on Hawaiian Petroglyphs, I, by the Curator 

 of Polynesian Ethnology; New Hawaiian Plants, II, by the 

 Curator of Botan5^ The Press has been busy on the many labels 

 required by a growing Museum, and also on the third volume of 

 the Memoirs, which was not completed by the end of the year, 

 certain studies by the Director, on the Museum collection of kapa, 

 having to await the accommodations of the new workrooms, this 

 entailing a delay of six months in the publication of this volume. 



In the Library, the increase has been both considerable and 

 valuable, as may be seen by the list of accessions. Much binding 

 of exchanges and other publications issued in parts, has been 



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