Dominion Museum Publications.

Herbert Williams' (1860-1927) contribution to Maori scholarship has been significant. He produced a revised dictionary of the Maori language in 1917 based on the substantial published volumes of his father Leonard and grandfather William, and spent years preparing this annotated bibliography of printed Maori to 1900, including researching Sir George Grey's collection of Maori manuscripts which in 1906 was housed in the South African Public Library in Cape Town. Issued in an edition of 1,000 as Dominion Museum monograph 7, the bibliography represents that cultural institution's commitment to Maori ethnographic research. Today, Williams' work, in turn, is being thoroughly revised and updated through the Early Maori Imprints (EMI) project based at the Alexander Turnbull Library. Two of Williams' lesser known productions are his A system of shorthand for Maori (1896), and his 1903 Greek in type: an essay for printers, which he set and printed at the family's Te Rau Press in Gisborne.