(i Director's . l>t>n<<t/ Report. 



have used it. This was followed by the Annual Report, and the 

 year closed with the publication of the fourth and last part of 

 Volume II <>i the Memoirs, a brief history of the volcanoes Kilauea 

 and Manna L,oa on Hawaii. Of course there has been the usual 

 large amount of label work and the miscellaneous printing the 

 Museum requires. It has been a great hindrance having the 

 — work done in town, and it will he a matter for early consider- 

 ation whether we should not make better work in the new printery 

 on a hand press; if the work is to still be done in town a much 

 larger font of type should be provided, as forms are locked up and 

 delayed in town beyond reasonable measure. Lest this should 

 seem a reversion to ancient methods, let us rememher that the 

 finest work has always heen done on the old hand press, and this 

 is universally used for the proofs of the half tone engravings which 

 form so large a part of modern illustration. The printing of a 

 volume on Kapa-making has already heen arranged, and it is 

 thought that this will be ready during [910 as Volume III of the 

 Memoirs. The illustrations have many of them been made in 

 Vienna in color and are faithful reproductions of the beautiful 

 kapi still existing in this Museum and in the Director's private 

 collection, which includes most of those Cook brought home. 

 Unfortunately under the tariff these plates which will cost nearly 

 five dollar-- a set, are subject to a duty of 25^ , although they 

 could not be made of such quality in America at present. 

 Department of Ethnology. 

 In the Department of Polynesian Ethnology Mr. J. F. <>. 

 Stokes, the Curator, has continued his studies of the curious 

 Hawaiian fish-traps and conservation ponds and his results appear 

 later in this series. Mr. Stokes has also spent some time on 

 Molokai surveying the remains of the ancient hciau or temples, 

 and while thus engaged found time to make collections of great 

 value, among them a collection of plants and the curious and little 



known Kalaina wawae, specimens of which, given by Mr. George 



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