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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 Hawai, 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. 
FreELD 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- 
eine”. 
Through its Committee on Entomological Organization, the 
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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