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previously mentioned. In the Handbook work Mr. Hodge 

 had the clerical assistance of Mrs. Frances S. Nichols. It is 

 now expected that Part 2 will be read}^ for distribution in 

 the near future. Mr. Hodge represented the Bureau on the 

 Smithsonian advisory committee on printing and publica- 

 tion, and served also as a member of the subcommittee on 

 bibliographical citations. In addition he prepared answers 

 to many inquiries from correspondents, oftentimes requiring 

 considerable research. 



Dr. C,\Tus Thomas, ethnologist, devoted his time during 

 the year to work on the catalogue of books and papers 

 relating to the Hawaiian Islands. This catalogue, in the 

 preparation of which Prof. H. M. Ballon, of Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, is joint author, has grown to an extent not antici- 

 pated at the outset. During the last and next preceding 

 fiscal years Professor Ballou examined, for this purpose, the 

 libraries of Boston and other cities of New England, and 

 also of New York. He also visited Hawaii, where he made 

 a careful examination of the public and private libraries of 

 Honolulu, obtaining thereby considerable early mission and 

 official material of a bibliogi-aphical nature not foimd else- 

 where. Dvu-ing the same period Doctor Thomas visited 

 Boston and Worcester twice, searching the libraries chiefly 

 along special lines to which Professor Ballou had not given 

 exhaustive attention; he also devoted considerable time to an 

 examination of the libraries of Washington. In addition to 

 these researches considerable bibliographical material has 

 been obtained by con-espondence. As a result of this work 

 the number of titles in the catalogue reaches some 6,200 — 

 more than eight times the number in the largest catalogue 

 in the same field hitherto published. Hon. George R. Carter, 

 former governor of the Territory- of Hawaii, has given much 

 encouragement to this work; in fact, with Professor Ballou, 

 he formed the leading spirit in its inception, though the be- 

 ginning of the work for the Bureau was undertaken quite inde- 

 pendentty. Doctor Thomas has appended a subject or cross- 

 reference catalogue of about 3,200 titles. In addition to this 

 work Doctor Thomas assisted to some extent in the preparation 



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