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especially to the Hawaiian Historical Society, the Territorial CjOv- 

 ernment through Mr. Lydecker, and the Catholic Mission through 

 the Rev. Father Y/.endoorn. From the Historical vSociety we re- 

 ceived also a large ([uantity of books, pamphlets and parts in Eng- 

 lish, including eight volumes and thirty-three parts of the Mission- 

 ary Herald, 1846- 1867, needed in completing our file. Letters from 

 Father Coan, and other missionaries, giving descriptions of man- 

 ners and customs in Haw^aii and numerous observations on the 

 volcano of Kilauea, make this series a valuable one for the Museum. 

 "F^arly in the autumn a systematic effort was made to discover 

 how many earlj^ Hawaiian newspapers and periodicals were still 

 in existence in the homes of the people. With this object in view% 

 more than a hundred letters were written to ministers, district 

 magistrates, circuit court judges, legislative representatives and 

 others on the different islands. We are indebted to the Rev. Henry 

 P. Judd for assistance in regard to names and addresses. Many 

 answers were received but only two of them could be considered 

 favorable. One man wrote that he had kept files of several publi- 

 cations, giving the list; the other replied that he had a few Hawaii- 

 an papers which he did not care to sell. The result of this canvass 

 shows that practically no files of Hawaiian publications are now in 

 existence outside of institutions and the large libraries of collectors, 

 and that what we have been able to collect is an important acqui- 

 sition. 



"Binding and Exchanges. — One hundred and ninety-three 

 books have been bound and the list of exchanges has been in- 

 creased by four. 



"Indexing. — The indexing of the more important Pacific voy- 

 ages is now fairly under way, four drawers of a card cabinet being 

 now filled with the index to Cook's last voyage (London, 1784. 

 3 vols. ) The ethnological subject headings are based largely on 

 those used in Notes and Oiict'ies on Anthropology — published for the 

 British iVssociation for the Advancement of Science — and Frazer's 

 Questions on the Customs, Beliefs and La>iguages of Sai'ages. 

 Although considerable work in the way of combining and revising 

 must yet be done before it is in any sense complete, the index is 

 now read}' for use and in fact is now being used. Next will come 

 an index of the same voyage by William Ellis, surgeon on the 



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