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old Hawaiian folk-lore, and the results 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 on 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 1916. 
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 Hawalians, as a result of considerable discoveries 
of material in Petrograd, Sydney and elsewhere, during the Direc- 
tor’s recent journey to study museums.! 
Another year should add extensively to the published work 
of the Museum staff. 
‘Occasional Papers, Vol. V, 5. [138] 
