Director's Annual R-^port. 



FIG. lO. BIRDS ON KOA BRAXCH. 



the Pacific ocean, and by closely watching the catalogues of the 

 book dealers in Europe, which are promptly mailed to the Museum, 

 and through the reports of our appointed book agents in London 

 and Berlin, many old and rare volumes have been gathered. In the 

 year under review but five books of voyages were picked up, and 

 these are : Dampier's Vo3'ages, Burney's History of Discoveries in 

 the Pacific, Fleurieu's Discoveries of the French, Flinder's Vo^-age 



