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Estate. This frame was cut by stone tools from the hardest and 

 most durable of Hawaiian woods, as naio and kaiiila and u hi 11 hi, 

 so that while the ends buried in the earth show signs of decay the 

 part exposed to the air is fresh and complete as when made so 

 many score of years ago. The frame has been bound together b}- 

 braid of iikiit/ci leaves and the thatch of t>ili grass attached by the 

 same means. 



Mr. Stokes has, during the year, nearly completed his admir- 

 able model of the Wahaula heiau which is to be exhibited in 

 Hawaiian Hall. As this ancient temple was the last one adlually 

 used in the former worship, and is in a situation remote from the 

 present population, and unsuited to the cultivation of sugar cane, 

 it has been possible to secure most of the original constru(5tion, or 

 rather (as it was rebuilt several times by chiefs of Hawaii) of the 

 construction last used for worship. Mr. Stokes and the Director 

 spent some time camping in the heiau making careful measure- 

 ments and photographs, from which Mr. Stokes has built with the 

 very stones of the temple, what I consider a ver}' accurate repre- 

 sentation of an ancient heiau. Mr. Bryan has added with great 

 skill a miniature grove of coconut trees. 



Mr. Walcott has completed the great task of rewriting the ac- 

 cession book, comparing each specimen with the description and 

 number in the most pain.staking manner. He has also arranged 

 the very extensive card index of contemporar}- zoological literature 

 of the Concilio Bibliographico of Zurich. 



Mr. Thompson has made many casts of the Hawaiian fishes, 

 and already the collection stored in Hawaiian Hall is a most inter- 

 esting and beautiful illustration of the Hawaiian fish fauna ; one 

 that we should hope to complete. Mr. Thompson's work received 

 the emphatic approval of the gentlemen of the United 'States Fish 

 Commission, and I doubt if so good representations of fish can be 

 found in an}' museum. Few persons can have a ju.st idea of the 

 variety and beauty of the Hawaiian fish as shown in this work. 

 The necessary removal and partial demolition by storm of Mr. 



