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trips to a camp on the mountains above Punaluu and the heights 

 of Kuala above Waianae. By his abundant collections we have 

 been able to inaugurate the long promised exchange with the 

 Botanical Garden at Sydney, N. S. W., and the specimens already 

 received in the course of exchange from Australia have been very 

 satisfactory. We hope soon to extend our exchanges to New 

 Zealand and Fiji. In his work on the Hawaiian Flora he has 

 described several new species of considerable interest and his de- 

 scriptions are appended to this Report. We hope to be able to 

 offer for publication in the Memoirs a decade of little known, 

 poorly described or unfigured Hawaiian plants of interest, of many 

 of which we have secured satisfactory photographs : the series to 

 be continued from time to time as material accumulates. 



While the general activities of the Museum have continued 

 to be limited by the absence of any sufficient room for work or 

 storage, those energies not so dependent on the Museum Labora- 

 tories have progressed satisfactorily. Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, the 

 Curator of Polynesian Fthnology, has been able to incorporate 

 with the general collection the Deverill collection referred to in the 

 last annual Report as purchased for the Museum, and a summary 

 catalogue of the same is appended to this Report. In his investi- 

 gations of Hawaiian antiquities he, in common with all who have 

 been compelled to use the valuable work of Fornander on the 

 Polynesian Race, found great annoyance and unnecessary labor 

 from the absence of an index to that work which is filled with in- 

 formation unskilfully arranged and with no key. To make the 

 path easier for future students Mr. Stokes has prepared a most 

 elaborate index extending to eighty-six pages as printed in double 

 columns, and the Trustees have authorized its printing as an extra 

 volume not in our exchange series. The edition is limited to two 

 hundred and fifty copies. Dr. W. D. Alexander, always a friend 

 to this Museum, has written a biographical sketch of Fornander 



and has warmlv commended the volume. 



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