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the staff. Our library is more and more consulted by lawyers for our 

 newspaper files, customs officials for records of analyses, etc., and 

 naturalists. Small as our library is, it still is of rare quality as a 

 working library, and it should be more convenienth' housed and 

 largely increased in certain lines; it is impossible to keep up with 

 our needs on a few hundred dollars a year. The list given below 

 of the accessions to the librar}' during the 3'ear by exchange of our 

 publications will show how rapidly our shelves are being filled 

 from that source. 



With these additions to the Museum, of which the plans have 

 been submitted to the Trustees, the original scheme of a museum 

 as conceived by the Director man}- years ago will have been car- 

 ried out, and a ver}- complete apparatus provided for the purposes 

 for which this Museum was founded. Todaj- we could not wisely 

 accept an}- large collection because we have not even room to 

 store it. Certain matters of value are even now stored in wooden 

 buildings in the school 5-ard where they are liable to destrudliou 

 from fire as well as from other causes. 



During the past year the work done at this Museum has not 

 been of the kind that a Diredtor might point to with pride as a 

 marked step in advance, but none the less it has been constant, 

 careful and honest work that tells in the condition of the Museum. 

 I believe that every member of the staff has worked with hearty 

 interest and to the utmost opportunity. We should have been glad 

 to point to large collecftions added to our stores; to many more 

 excellent casts of our less known fruits added to our little orchard 

 in Hawaiian Hall; to many score of Mr. Thompson's remarkable 

 fish casts; to some important publication during the year. None 

 of these good things were destined to come within our good for- 

 tune. We have simply grown, mostly b}- natural accretion. We 

 have, however, tried to do the best with the means at our disposal. 



In the department of Ethnology we have had comparatively 

 few accessions, but we have had an opportunity' of stud^ung a col- 

 le(5tion of Hawaiian objecfts of great interest which were found 



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