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tensive work on the plans of the ancient heiau made by his own 

 careful surveys on Hawaii. 



Dr. Cooke has continued his good work on the Hawaiian land 

 shells and has been during the year appointed Curator of Pulmo- 

 nata. As he has been able to establish his laboratory in his home 

 he has suffered less than the other workers from insufficient ac- 

 commodations. He has prepared an account of the Hawaiian 

 Helicina which is now in the hands of the Publication Committee. 



Mr. J. W. Thompson has continued his admirable casting and 

 painting of the Fishes and Fruits until the results are most valu- 

 able and interesting, and the extent of his work will be judged by 

 the appended list of casts. 



In the Library the binding of more than five hundred volumes 

 has been completed, adding greatly to the convenience of the 

 Museum workers, and the increase has been satisfactory as will 

 be seen by the list of accessions. We have also acHed somewhat 

 to our exchange list. An additional case has been procured for the 

 constantly increasing cards of the Concilium Bibliographicum, a 

 collection very valuable in this place remote from large libraries. 



The Museum Press has issued only the Annual Report for 

 1906, but has been occupied with printing the third part of Volume 

 II of the Memoirs, "The Ancient Hawaiian House", by the 

 Director. It is hoped that this may be completed during the cur- 

 rent year. Other papers have been prepared but were not ready 

 for press during the past year. 



The Deverill collection of Hawaiian ethnology which has been 

 stored in the Museum for some time, has been finally purchased 

 for the Museum by the C. R. Bishop Trust and will soon be incor- 

 porated with the general collection. If Mr. Deverill could have 

 lived long enough to write his notes on the articles comprising his 

 collection its value would have been greatly enhanced, for he was 

 a careful observer and his knowledge of native ways was uncom- 

 monly extensive. It is intended to offer notes on some of the rarer 



objects in the Museum publications. 



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