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of the Marquesas" and "Rediscoveries in Polynesia" were ready for the 

 press ; and a manuscript entitled "An interpretative study of the religion 

 of the Polynesian people" was practically finished. A course of lectures 

 on ethnology was delivered by Mr. Handy at the University of Hawaii. 



Willowdean C. Handy. Associate in Polynesian Folkways and \'olun- 

 teer Assistant with the Bayard Dominick Expedition, completed a manu- 

 script on "Tattooing in the Marquesas" (p. 13) and made considerable 

 progress with her studies of Polynesian string figures. Her paper on "The 

 Marquesans: fact vs. fiction" appeared in the Yale Review for July. 



Early in April Lieut. Hans G. Hornbostel began his work as Collec- 

 tor and has been unusually successful in obtaining anthropological material 

 from Guam and neighboring islands. (See p. 21 and p. 33). 



Elizabeth B. Higgins, Librarian and Editor, has continued to care for 

 the needs of the library and to share the burden of editing mansucript, 

 proof reading, and of distributing publications. During the year a history 

 of the library has been prepared for the Museum files and progress has 

 been made in making a much needed inventory. Excerpts from the report 

 by Miss Higgins appear on pages 36-38. 



Norman E. A. Hinds, Instructor in Geology, Harvard University and 

 Bishop Museum Fellow for 1922-23, spent six months on Kauai, continu- 

 ing his work of the previous year on the geology of that island. A brief 

 abstract of his forthcoming report appeared in the Bulletin of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America volume 33, number i, 1922. 



J. F. Illingworth, Research Associate in Entomology, has given gener- 

 ously of his time in furthering the interests of the Museum. During the 

 year five papers on economic phases of entomology were prepared for the 

 Hawaiian Entomological Society and one for the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. A manuscript on early references to Hawaiian entomology 

 was submitted to the Museum. Li a report submitted to the Director, 

 Mr. Illingworth makes the following interesting observations : 



The indications are that the Hawaiian fauna, insects as well as men, are immi- 

 grants from the south and west. With this idea in mind, I have taken the oppor- 

 tunity to make a comparative study of the insect fauna of Hawaii with that of other 

 parts of the Pacific. For this investigation I have used the vast amount of material 

 collected by me in Fiji and in Australia during four years' residence in Queensland, 

 the well-known Helms collection and other materials in the Bishop Museum, the 

 collections of Mr. D. T. Fullaway loaned by the United States E.xperiment Station, 

 and collections made by Mr. F. Muir from countries bordering the Pacific loaned 

 by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station. 



A study of flies throws some interesting side lights upon the origin of man 

 in Hawaii. House flies have ever been closely associated with human beings. In 

 fact so much so that they are not found on uninhabited islands, and the United 

 States Exploring Expedition, in 1840, reported that flies' were a sure indication of 



