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old Hawaiian folk-lore, and the resnlts of his careful work will 

 soon appear in the Memoirs of the Museum, of which they will 

 form Volume IV. Perhaps no one could have been selected with 

 more knowledge of the subject, or more genuine love of the sub- 

 jects of which these papers treat. I believe scholars will owe a 

 debt of gratitude to the Trustees of this Museum for publishing in 

 this way the record of the thoughts of the old Hawaiians, as well 

 as in the preceding volumes the story of their manual dexterity. 

 In these days when the manufacture of old Hawaiian legends keeps 

 pace with the fraudulent idol-making, which, as elsewhere, has 

 been rife ou these islands, it is well to preserve records collected 

 by skilled hands and educated brains in the days of comparative 

 primitive innocence. 



Of our publications only the Director's Annual Report has 

 been issued, but the printer has been kept busy with a large 

 amount of labels and general work, and the printing of the 

 Fornander papers of Hawaiian folk-lore has progressed so far in 

 Mr. Thrum's editing the original Hawaiian, with translation and 

 notes, that the first part will be issued in the spring of igi6. 



Dr. Cooke has ready for the press another of his valuable 

 papers on Hawaiian land shells which will be issued as part of 

 the incomplete Volume III of the Occasional Papers, a volume 

 devoted to conchology. Mr. Forbes has prepared, as will be seen 

 later in this report, a description of new Hawaiian plants. 



Mr. Stokes has spent a great amount of time and labor on an 

 historical work that was left wholly without references to authori- 

 ties and quotations. 



Work has also been done on another supplement to the Feather 

 Work of the old Hawaiians, as a result of considerable discoveries 

 of material in Petrograd, Sydney and elsewhere, during the Direc- 

 tor's recent journey to study museums.' 



Atiother year should add exteusiveh- to the published work 

 of the Museum staff. 



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