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Trustees and changes in organization and management will great- 

 ly increase the value of the library to scientific investigators. 

 Cooperative arrangements are being perfected by the Museum, the 

 College of Hawaii, the Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, the 

 Historical Society and the Public Library, for the interchange of 

 books and the elimination of expense incident to unnecessary 

 duplication. By combining the rapidly increasing resources of 

 the various Hawaiian libraries and thereby enabling each institu- 

 tion to devote attention to its particular field of interest, the 

 opportunity is afforded to make the facilities for students working 

 in Honolulu equivalent to those afforded by large educational 

 centers on the mainland. 



Field Work 



The collections in Ethnology and Natural History belonging 

 to the Museum, have been acquired chiefly through gift and pur- 

 chase; much of the valuable material contributed by members 

 of the staff' has been gathered incidentally and not infrequently 

 in vacation periods and at the expense of the collector. It seems 

 desirable that systematic field surveys in archaeology, botany, and 

 other -branches of the Museum's activities should be made first 

 of the Hawaiian Islands, second of other Polynesian island groups 

 and later of the regions bordering Polynesia. During the present 

 year Mr. Stokes and Mr. Forbes have spent several months in 

 the field and the plans for 1920 involve considerable extension of 

 investigations in areas from which information is desired. 



The Entomological Society 



The Hawaiian Entomological Society has given generously 

 of its time and thought to the work of the Museum. At the 

 request of the Acting Director, the Society has prepared compre- 

 hensive statements on the "Biological Problems of the Hawaiian 

 Insect Fauna" and on "Entomological Exploration of the Pa- 

 cific". 



Through its Committee on Entomological Organization, tiie 

 Society has submitted the following suggestions which in the 

 opinion of the Acting Director should define the attitude of the 

 Museum. 



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