Dear Ann Gunn: In regards to your question about research and scholarship in museums, I would like to add a word from the researcher's side. I was informed last Friday that the one and only museum here in Hawaii will charge me $50 per hour to work on a collection (I need to measure and weigh several hundred lithic artifacts). I am an archaeologist writing my Ph.D. dissertation and certainly cannot afford to spend that kind of money doing research. I won't do it, the research won't be done, the museum won't have the data, and everyone loses. I know that museums are desperate for money but surely this isn't the answer. Many scholars do not have huge research grants and must pay their own way. While I am very sympathetic to the financial problems of Collections Managers, I see this trend as a death knell for scholarly research in museums. Aloha anyway, Charlotte Hunter