14 Dircrioys Report for Kjfj. 



Trustee of the x\uckland Museum; Professor and Mrs. T. C. True- 

 blood, University of Michigan: Professor Herbert E. Gregory, 

 Head of Geological Department, Yale lTni\ersity. 



In comparing the total attendance of four successive \ears 



we find — 



1914 '.5.573 '916 15,529 



i9'5 iS-g-^'S 1917 15.657 



It is rather surprising to see for the past year the native Hawaii- 

 ans are represented by only 713 while Chinese count 1142 and Jap- 

 anese, the major part of the population of the Territory, register 

 only 2599. The Chinese have always been among the most inter- 

 ested of our visitors, and yet they are the only people excluded 

 from free access to free America! 



Museum Press. — The greater part of the year the printer 

 has been busy with the Fornander papers which are being pre- 

 pared for the press under the able editorship of the veteran pub- 

 lisher and antiquarian, Mr. Thomas G. Thrum. Last year the fir.st 

 part was issued and this year the first volume has been completed 

 and would have been issued except for some delay on the index of 

 nearly fifty quarto pages. This has passed the press and will be 

 distributed early in 191 8. As the remainder of the Fornander 

 papers will fill two of the average volumes of the Museum Memoirs, 

 and the printing of these will occupy much time, the first part of 

 \'olume \'II of the Memoirs has been largely put in type and will 

 soon be issued. The Annual Report of the Director for igi6 has 

 also been i.ssued during the year. As during the latter part of the 

 3-ear our printer has been without assistance, and during the tem- 

 porary absence of Mr. Thrum has had difficult work with the Hawaii- 

 an version of the Fornander papers, especially in proofreading, a 

 difficulty the Director shared with him, he deserved commendation. 

 It might be wise in .selecting an assistant to fill the existing vacancy 



to consider an educated Hawaiian printer, if one can be found. 



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