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needed can be much better made by one who is in touch with the 

 museum work than by outside assistance. 



Mr. J. W. Thompson has continued his casts of fishes, but his 

 work was unfortunately interrupted to make similar fish casts for 

 the Hawaiian exhibit at St. Louis. Since this exhibit has been 

 given up from lack of funds, the three months work of Mr. Thomp- 

 son is a loss so far as the Museum is concerned. 



To our staff has been added a lady assistant to preside on 

 public days in Hawaiian Hall and take charge of the sales of the 

 handbook and other publications of the Museum. Another of the 

 quarto memoirs of the Museum series, "The Mat and Basketry of 

 the Old Hawaiians," is ready and will soon be put to press. 



TABLE OF ATTENDANCE. 



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