14 Director's Report for 1917. 
Trustee of the Auckland Museum; Professor and Mrs. T. C. True- 
blood, University of Michigan; Professor Herbert E. Gregory, 
Head of Geological Department, Yale University. 
In comparing the total attendance of four successive years 
we find— 
1573 IQIO) wells le 15,529 
TOU5 = 250 15,995 IQI7 ------ 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 /7ee 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 first 
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 1918. As the remainder of the Fornander 
papers will fill two of the average volumes of the Museum J/emozrs, 
and the printing of these will occupy much time, the first part of 
Volume VII of the JZemozrs has been largely put in type and will 
soon be issued. The Annual Report of the Director for 1976 has 
also been issued during the year. As during the latter part of the 
year 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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