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the returned ackno\vled<^inent cards are filed. A set of Concilimn 

 Bibliographicuin cards for /oology occupies two cabinets, additions 

 coming in from Zurich at irregular intervals. Much time has 

 been given to the Library card catalogue. Although no attempt 

 has been made to rewrite the whole, many new cards have been 

 inserted to replace those which were torn or illegible; guide cards 

 have been prepared, and new accessions as received are furnished 

 with author and subject cards, if needed. Much cross-indexing 

 of important works relating to the Pacific has been and is being 

 done. vSome of the subjects chosen for this work are : 'Worship'. 

 'Petroglyphs', 'Volcanoes, Hawaiian Islands', 'Birds, Hawaiian 

 Islands', 'Birds, Australia', 'Russians in Hawaii', 'Burial Cus- 

 toms', 'Tatu'. The value of this work has been felt already and 

 the continuation of it will be of the greatest advantage. 



''Pamphlets. The classification and care of pamphlets is al- 

 ways a source of difficulty to a librarian. In this Library 'sepa- 

 rates' and other papers are classified and placed in pasteboard 

 pamphlet cases labeled with the general subject. A list of con- 

 tents is pasted on the outside of all boxes containing papers likely 

 to be called for by the members of the staff. By this means a 

 pamphlet is found as easily as a book. 



''Binding. Besides the repairing of torn pages or broken 

 backs, there may be included here work on old volumes to make 

 the material more available, such as the insertion of a table of 

 contents, or pagination of a volume composed of several parts, 

 each complete in itself. Our set of Pacific Voyages is being fur- 

 nished with a list of the Pacific islands visited, inserted on the 

 fly-leaf of the volume, and a list of illustrations is being placed in 

 the folios of plates. The set of voyages, arranged in chronological 

 order, has been labeled with author or commander's name, and in 

 .some cases also the name of the ship. As many of these old vol- 

 umes are entitled simply 'Voyage round the World', or have no 

 binder's title whatever, it is necessary to have some means of 

 identification. Labels have been used very freely in all parts of 

 the Library, especially on old books. This work has made the 

 Library of much more value for reference purposes, although 

 much more of a similar nature remains to be done. 



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