Director's Report for 1917. 7 
‘‘Resolution’’ (London, 1783, 2 vols. 8vo.). A steel card cabinet 
is now needed for the indexes to the voyages. 
‘The listing of duplicates and the classification of our lists of 
‘wants’ have been begun. When the work is complete copies will 
be sent to all the institutions on our exchange list. This method, 
we hope, may unearth some important items that we have not been 
able to obtain from book dealers. 
‘‘Requests come to us from time to time for information in re- 
gard to lists of books on Hawaii. One of the librarians in the 
Library of Hawaii recently brought up the question of an Hawaii- 
an bibliography saying how urgently a good one was needed. By 
way of suggestion, I may give my opinion that a good bibliography 
could be prepared at the Museum by collecting the lists on special 
subjects already prepared by the curators of departments and by 
getting some help from outside specialists. General works should, 
I think, be limited to those of original observers, or else the list 
should be annotated. Such a work could not well be undertaken 
by the Museum at present, but the need of it is unquestioned.’’ 
The Librarian is right in her opinion that this work could not 
be undertaken at present when the Museum has but three active 
curators of botany, ethnology and pulmonata. ‘This Museum has 
no curator of ornithology to speak for the bird life and history; no 
curator of marine zoology to speak of the fishes and their vast and 
much studied life, of the corals, that some day may prove an index 
to the age and formation of not only islands but continents within 
the limits of coral growth, indeed of the life of the ocean almost as 
extensive as the life of the land, and some day to take his place as 
head of the marine zoological station that Mr. Bishop gives a promi- 
nent place in his Deed of Trust, and for which the Legislature of 
the Republic of Hawaii granted a location, and the Director of this 
Museum made plans that were approved by Alexander Agassiz 
and Dr. Dohrn of Naples; no curator of geology to call attention to 
all that has been written on the volcanic manifestations on this 
Group; no taxidermist to care for the large collection now in the 
Museum of bird skins, nests and eggs; now without going farther, 
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