8 Director' s Annual Report. 



During the year Mr. Seale, who had been collecfling for two 

 years in the southeast and western Pacific was recalled by the 

 Trustees, and the results of his work will be described later. 

 Since his return he has been occupied with the determination of 

 the fishes of his colledling. 



As Mr. Stokes was appointed Curator of Polynesian Ethnology, 

 Mr. Blackman has taken the considerable responsibility of caring 

 for the Library which has grown during the year (as will be seen 

 by the list appended of accessions) and been transferred to the new 

 cases in the upper gallery of Hawaiian Hall. Mr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., 

 has been busily studying and colle(5ling Hawaiian land shells until 

 his specimens number many thousands. We hope soon to resume 

 experiments (interrupted by the installation of the new hall) as to 

 the best method of illustrating the minute shells of To7'natellma 

 and similar genera. We hope to publish more of Mr. Cooke's 

 results before the end of another year, 



Mr. John J. Greene has continued with the Printing Depart- 

 ment and, beside very many labels, has printed the last report (1902) 

 and a handbook to the Museum which is intended not only to re- 

 place the former catalogue, now long out of print, but also to serve 

 as guide through the halls and as an illustrated remembrancer of 

 a visit to the Bishop Museum. The high standard of the Museum 

 Press has been fully maintained. At the request of many students 

 the Trustees authorized the publication of the original descriptions 

 of Hawaiian land shells, especially of the genus Achatinella so far 

 as they could be colledted, and Mr. E. W. Thwing has edited these 

 with notes and the printing has begun. 



At the first of the year Mr. Ralph C. Geer, our cabinet maker 



and "generally handy man" resigned and his place has not been 



filled, nor will it be easy to fill it. Every museum diredlor knows 



how valuable in museum work a thoroughly competent carpenter 



is, and the hundreds of stands and supports for specimens always 



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