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''Incomplete Serials. Much progress has been made in com- 

 pleting serials published by museums and scientific societies. 

 Ten important sets, each covering a long period of years, have 

 been completed and large additions made to others. One of these, 

 'Nature', London, 1869 to date, has been completed in 1915; also 

 our set of 'Reports of the Governor of Hawaii to the Secretary of 

 the Interior.' Among the sets recently completed is the 'Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society of Australia,' which the Curators of 

 ethnolog}' and entomology have found quite indispensable in con- 

 nection with work on the Helms collection. Sixteen serials, 

 several of them long ones, now lack from one to five volumes 

 each. If these missing parts are ever obtained, it will probably 

 be one or two at a time from various sources after much search of 

 catalogues and correspondence. 



"Some attention has been given to translation, chiefly detached 

 passages from German authors, needed by members of the staff, 

 but also business correspondence in regard to Museum matters. 

 Some longer work, however, has been attempted including a 

 lengthy article hy Baessler on the aboriginal sacred enclosures of 

 the Society Islands. 



"A number of lists and compilations have been made for 

 library use. For example, from the bibliographies of Jarves, 

 Pease, Martin, Brigham, Griffin and others, of works relating to 

 the Hawaiian Islands, a list has been made of all the Hawaiiana 

 listed by them which it would be desirable to obtain for this 

 Library. A German-English vocabulary of botanical terms with 

 list of abbreviations used has been compiled, typewrttten and 

 bound in amateur fashion for the Herbarium, the carbon copy 

 serving for the Library. A finding list has been made to the set 

 of Pacific Voyages, giving names of authors and commanders, 

 names of the ships by w^hich the voyages are generally known, 

 the date of the voyage, and also the section and shelf where 

 the volumes are to be found. Two lists of duplicates have 

 been made: one of Hawaiiana, the other of general scientific pub- 

 lications. 



"An effort has been made to increase the number of exchanges, 

 which in 1910 numbered 113. In response to our letters offering 

 exchange of publications, many appreciative replies and some 



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