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ings will contain pump rooms, sorting chambers, food tanks, and 

 above stairs laboratories. A light railway will extend from the 

 wharf through the sorting and food rooms td the tank room or 

 Aquarium. These subsidiary buildings whose plan will depend on 

 the location of the institution will contain Preparator's store and 

 work room, store rooms for glass, dredging and diving apparatus. 



The first work to be done will be a very thorough explora- 

 tion of the shores and reefs of this Group, although this will not of 

 course be continuous work. The tanks in the Aquarium will re- 

 quire some time for the specimens to become established and fit for 

 exhibition. This is especially the case with Aclinias, Corals and 

 man>- of the lower forms of marine life. There will be discovered 

 many new species which should be published as speedily as possi- 

 ble in the Memoirs of the Museum, and be fully illustrated. The 

 Aquarium will require a complete photographic outfit distincT; from 

 that of the Museum, as all new forms brought in by the collecftors 

 should be photographed while alive or at least while fresh, and an 

 artist who is a good colorist should be permanently employed for 

 this work. \"ery likely the artist in colors and the photographer 

 can be the same person. The Diredlor has already devised simple 

 apparatus for the convenient photographing of fish, etc., in tanks 

 either by sunlight or the eledlric light. 



Another employee of constant importance is the Tank- 

 keeper. It is his business to feed the animals, keep the tanks in 

 order and look after the supply of water and air to the study as 

 well as the exhibition tanks: the position requires knowledge as 

 well as industry-, and he will need an apprentice. The Preparator 

 will be a man skilled in the preparation of specimens for exhibition, 

 and it will not only be his dut}' to prepare specimens for the museum, 

 but to pack and forward all specimens and material to be sent to other 

 museums, and in this department there will be many exchanges. 



A competent engineer to look after the pumps, filters, valves, 

 etc., will be required, as well as one for the steam launch. It will 

 be best to use for the pumps an electric motor, and if the building 

 is within reach of the town water supply no pumping of fresh water 

 will be required. With an electric motor and other modern appli- 

 ances the engineer of the boat will serve in the other capacity also, 

 and he will have an apprentice. A steam launch of such characfler 

 as is used by the United States Fish Commission at Wood's Hole* 



* I am adWsed by Prof. A. Agassiz that a larger boat, 80 feet on the water line and 20 

 feet beam, will be better for Hawaiian waters. 



