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home of the several departments very satisfactory. No important 

 furnishing remains but the provision of steel eases for the storage 

 of perishable treasures. With these, which are commonly admit- 

 ted the best for our purpose in a tropical climate, the Bishop 

 Museum will be in a most satisfactory position for the preservation 

 as well as for the study of all its collections. What has already 

 been done in the new quarters may be gathered from the following 

 abstract of the departmental reports to the Director. 



Looking first to our relations with the rest of the world the 

 work of the printery may be reported. We have been greatly hin- 

 dered by the nonarrival of important printing machinery ordered 

 many mouths ago, but in spite of this, and the absence of our head 

 printer on his well earned vacation, the usual routine work of label, 

 notice, letterhead, etc., has not been interrupted, and our assistant 

 printer has put through the press the final part of Volume IV of 

 the Occasional Papers. Of the Memoirs the third volume has been 

 issued consisting of but one part, but of nearly the bulk of the pre- 

 vious volumes in five and four parts issued separately. This book 

 on the manufacture of bark-cloth, Ka Hana Kapa, with its very 

 beautiful and valuable plates, has been well received by our corre- 

 spondents and others. The final part of Volume IV Occasional 

 Papers has been completed with index to the volume. It contains 

 the Director's report of the work of the previous year, and a valu- 

 able paper on the Naturalized Flora of the Hawaiian Islands by 

 Charles N. Forbes, Curator of Botany. This addition to previ- 

 ous lists of plants that have become naturalized in recent times 

 on these islands will prove of no little interest to the future student 

 of the vegetation of the Pacific islands. Volume III of the Occa- 

 sional Papers has not been completed, as it was thought best to 

 reserve this for the conchological papers which it is thought will 

 soon be ready for publication. When our long-delayed machinery 



arrives our printerv will be verv complete and productive at a less 



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