hee POR 
URING the whole year.1910, work on the new Laboratory 
|) building continued and on December 31, it was still incom- 
plete. In spite of this necessary disturbance, the various 
departments made fair progress. 
Mr. J. W. Thompson, our Modeler, has continued his very 
excellent work in casting the fishes and coloring these casts ina 
way that provoked from so competent a judge as President David 
Starr Jordan, the statement that these painted casts were far better 
than any paintings of fish he had seen for study and identification. 
The same authority pronounced our collection of Hawaiian fishes 
in casts of the greatest value. Many casts of fruit, and of stone 
and wooden implements, have also been made. 
The record of the Printery is not impressive, although there 
has been no lack of good work; the only publication issued was 
the last Annual Report. This, in addition to the report, contained 
in the appendix illustrated articles on Hawaiian Curved Adzes 
by the Director; Notes on Hawaiian Petroglyphs, I, by the Curator 
of Polynesian Ethnology; New Hawaiian Plants, II, by the 
Curator of Botany. The Press has been busy on the many labels 
required by a growing Museum, and also on the third volume of 
the Memoirs, which was not completed by the end of the year, 
certain studies by the Director, on the Museum collection of kapa, 
having to await the accommodations of the new workrooms, this 
entailing a delay of six months in the publication of this volume. 
In the Library, the increase has been both considerable and 
valuable, as may be seen by the list of accessions. Much binding 
of exchanges and other publications issued in parts, has been 
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