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approbation and your help ? In many countries common carriers 

 take free all specimens coming to a large museum because they 

 recognize the value in mere dollars and cents that such an institu- 

 tion is to a country, and the workers are freely carried over railroads 

 and waterways. As we are so remote from other museums our 

 publications become a ver}' necessar}- means of communication, 

 and today our exchanges go to most parts of the civilized world, 

 and this Museum that has grown up in your midst for thirteen 

 years almost unnoticed is today willingly accorded the first place 

 in the class of local museums by all the museum authorities. 



We are insatiable in our wants. We must have every plant, 

 every coral, every fish, every bird, indeed, every natural or manu- 

 facflured thing that will help in the study of this Pacific region. 

 We are few in numbers and j-ou must help us as some of the 

 5'ounger men in the schools are now doing, and in return we will 

 show you beauties of nature you never noticed before. In the 

 gallery of Hawaiian Hall will gradually grow an aviary where you 

 can see at a glance the life history of our Hawaiian birds, and in that 

 same wa}' we hope to treat other classes of the children of Nature. 



The handbook will help in finding things wanted, but I should 

 feel obliged to apologise for the absence of many needed labels did 

 I not know that there are already labels enough to occup}- your 

 attention in many visits, at least until our printer can complete the 

 work. But I will spare your ears and leave you to the more pleas- 

 ing exercise of your eyes. 



This closed the formal proceedings, and the remainder of the 

 afternoon was spent in inspe(5ting the halls. On the following 

 Friday public open days were resumed. On the 25th November 

 the Direcflor left on the Sonoma for a vacation in the Colonies, and 

 as a result of that journey many choice ethnological and zcfological 

 specimens were brought to the Museum. 



Of the special results of the year's work may be mentioned 

 several fine groups of birds by Mr. W, A. Bryan, who also com- 

 pleted a model of Kilauea crater on a scale of 130 feet to the inch. 

 Mr. Stokes has completed his elaborate and accurate model of an 

 ancient Hawaiian temple. 



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