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and many others the Bishop Museum was already known, and in 

 all a kindly feeling- was shown for the little museum in Honolulu; 

 and there were those who showed its publications as valued posses- 

 sions, and helped the Director to prize more highly the little work- 

 shop in the midst of the Great Ocean where he had at times been 

 aweary and feeling, if not asking, qui bono ? 



And now as the reports of the Curators of the Museum of the 

 work that has been going on there all the while come to him for 

 examination and comment, he cannot but feel that the munificent 

 and wise foundation of Charles Reed Bishop has not been in vain, 

 it has not produced a merely temporary show. The work goes on: 

 it is not merely a personal one but one that fits in and is wanted 

 in the company of those who are doing their best in the museums 

 of the world. The Bishop Museum has its place among these 

 many institutions and seems to be welcomed as a useful brother. 



Our printery has at last received its new furniture and is in 

 most satisfactory order. This report will be the first issue from the 

 renovated office. The Annual Report for 191 1 was issued during 

 this year but before the arrival of the new apparatus. Beyond that 

 the work has been internal — notices, letterheads, labels, address 

 cards and the many small but very important needs of a working 

 museum; for this reason the assistant, Mr. A. Perry, has been tem- 

 porarily transferred to the library where he has been very useful. 



For the library our busy Librarian Miss E. B. Higgins reports 



a long and excellent list of accessions, which will be found later in 



the report, but an abstract of their number may be given here: 



Bound books 202 



Books in paper covers 2026 



Total received 2228 



Exchanges received bound 9 



Exchanges received in paper covers 903 912 



By purchase and gift, bound 193 



By purchase and gift, unbound 1123 1316 



Total 2228 



Plates, illustrations, photographs 260 



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