Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-08

storms, and the main so-called oDser-
vatory is so cheap a structure that II
has been flooded repeatedly and 1t
was completely deroofed by a hurri-
cane on January Is OF this year so as
to force suspension Of chronological
work for two months Surely in this
time of prosperity and abundant
wealth in Hawaii, when scientific in
situations are suffering profoundly in
Europe, these conditions can be RENE
died.
What is now demanded at the crat-
er of kilauea, on the land which is
leased gratuitously u this association
is a good Research Association build
ing designed to give wider publicity
to the work which the Association is
fostering, to provide collections and
reading matter in comfortable place
and to secure safety, accessibility and
permanency to the scientific archives.
1T has been suggested that possib-
ly the Bishop Museum might consider
establishing geological branch OF its
exhibition rooms at the volcano and
this, no doubt, would be as good a
way as any other to accomplish the
end sought for. What have to pre-
sent to you, however, as the Hawaii
an Volcano Research Association, is
not suggestion of ways and means,
but rather a definite plan of what Is
needed. leave the ways and means
to you end the community.
Society Must Have Home.
"The association must have a house
r.. ff1V
safe storage of valuable property. 1t
is not proposed to rebuild the observ-
atory, which is a fire-trap, but will
do well enough for the present routine
work. There is needed an additional
building which will serve "a as a
place for visitors apart from the OBJ
seryatory, (2) a place for occasional
lectures where folding chairs may be
arranged and a stereopticon screen
erected, and CD place for the IL
brary and librarian of the observa-
tory, this officer to attend to the wants
of visitors, to enroll new members
and to keep Systematically and Sc
curely the records Of the observatory
and the collection OF books, periodic
ais, reprints, maps, photographs, Ian
tern slides, publications, seismograms,
thermograms, barograms, negatives,
correspondence. exchanges, speci-
mems, models and drawings, and to
sell such products of the association
as are saleable. In short, the pro-
posed building represents vital
need of our work for more
safety and more publicity, de-
manded alike by the scientific staff,
the members of this association and
the general public.
For $1,000 outlay, then, and $4,000
per annum upkeep as minimum sug-
eested sums, the proposed studio Of
the Hawaiian Volcano Research Asso-
citation at Volcano House could be ere.
ated. For double these amounts we
would have building to be proud Of
1t matters not whether this building
be named museum. rest house, studio,
reading room or library, whether 1t be
named and endowed for the family OF
the donor or as a memorial to some
one deceased, nor is it even essential
that 1t be wholly in the name of this
Research Association, provided room
in the building be set apart for the
association, where its library and ar
chives may be kept.
''The more distinctly educational the
proposed building can be made, the
better it will serve the community
provided, however, that the general
public be not excluded and that the
aim of all exhibits be to simplify rath
er than to make technical. No ques
ton Of interference by any institution
is involved, unless possibly the Bishop
Museum might take the matter up, and
the Massachusetts Institute OF Tech
noIogy is interested only as a current
subscriber to this association.
All Should Be Interested.
in the subject Of the present ap
peal all residents of the territory and
all travellers hither should be interest