14 Bcniicc P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



Bulletin Tlic native culture in tlie Marquesas, by E. S. Craghill Handy, 



1923. 



A study of the native culture in tlie Marquesas based on original research 



during a nine months' residence, supplemented by knowledge derived from 



printed sources and unpublished manuscripts. 

 A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language, by Lorrin Andrews, Revised by Henry 



H. Parker. Published for the Board of Commissioners of Public Archives. 



(See p. 25.) 

 Table of Contents and Index for Occasional Papers, Volume VIII. 



The following papers are in the hands of the PubHcation Committee 

 or of the Editor: 



The material culture of the natives of the Marquesas Islands, by Ralph Linton 



Tongan Myths and Talcs, by Edward Winslow GifTard 



Tongan Place Names, by Edward Winslow Giffard 



Polynesian design elements, by Ruth H. Greiner 



Early references to Hawaiian Entoinolog>-, by J. F, lUingworth 



Hawaiian legends, by William H. Rice 



Papers in preparation include the following : 



An archaelogical and ethnological survey of Lanai, by Kenneth P. Emory 



The marine shell-bearing MoUusca and Brachipoda of the Hawaii.m Isl.inds, by 



William Healey Dall 

 An interpretative study of the religion of the Polynesian people, by E. S. Craighill 



Handy 

 Tongan society and religion, by Edward Winslow GifTard 

 Tongan material culture and archaeology, by W. C. McKern 

 Studies in Hawaiian anthropology, by Louis R. Sullivan 

 Hawaiian fungi, by F. L. Stevens 

 A statistical analysis of Partula of Guam and Marianas islands, by Henry E. 



Crampton 

 Geology of Kauai, by Norman E. A. Hinds 

 A study of Hawaiian plants with reference to plant distrilnition in the Pacific, by 



Carl Skottsberg 

 A study of Hawaiian fishes, by Henry W. Fowler 

 Flora of the Marquesas Islands, by Forest B. H. Brown 

 Ethnology of Tubuai, by Robert T. Aitken 

 A study of Hawaiian Diptera, by Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. 

 An ethnological survey of Rapa, by John F. G. Stokes 

 Report of the Director for 1922 



In the Museum publications three clianges have been made: (i) the 

 books and pamphlets heretofore hsted as Miscellaneous Publications have 

 become Special Pubhcations, (2) the series of Occasional papers will be 

 discontinued after the completion of Volume VIII, (3) a new series to be 

 known as Bulletins has been establisiied. No chan<je is contemplated in 

 the Memoirs. 



During the year, 1894 numbers of the Memoirs were distributed, in- 

 cluding 30 complete sets; of Occasional Papers 3782, including 13 com- 

 plete sets ; of Special Publications 903, including 22 complete sets of 

 Fauna Hawaiiensis. The regular distribution of publications at time of 

 issue has varied from 317 to 461. 



