Dif'cctof's Annual Report. 7 



In the botanical department new interest in the Hawaiian 

 Algae has awakened by the publication of Professor W. A. Setcli- 

 ell's paper on Hawaiian "lyimu," and by the purchase of Miss 

 Tilden's colledlion of specimens. 



The Museum Press has issued only the Annual Report. The 

 Memoir on Mat and Basket Weaving has dragged through this 

 the second year: portions of two other papers have been printed, 

 and many hundred labels have filled the list of work. While the 

 year has been a busy one for the printer, it is hoped that 1906 may 

 see a larger number of publications issued. The delay has not 

 been for want of material. 



There have been no changes in the Museum Staff. 



The attendance for the year is shown in the following table, 

 and as in previous years it shows the variety of nationalities that 

 frequents the Museum. The total number of visitors, 14,296, is 

 greater than in previous years. Of the orientals the Chinese, 

 while showing a far greater number in proportion to their popula- 

 tion, fall below the Japanese in acftual number of visitors. A very 

 curious result of advertising is shown in the table. During my 

 absence from the Islands, it w^as decided by the Trustees to adver-. 

 tise the Museum in the daily morning paper of Honolulu, and a 

 very full schedule of times and seasons when the Museum might 

 be visited was published for seven months. At once the number of 

 visitors fell off to a marked extent, as may be seen on the table, 

 and the telephone was more than ever used to inquire "when the 

 Museum was open?" When the advertisement was dropped the 

 increase was as marked as the decrease had been before.' It was 

 a curious coincidence, but I do not attempt to explain it. The 

 admission of passengers on through steamers that may be in port 

 on days when the Museum is not open to the public, by written 

 order from the office of the Trustees in town, has continued during 

 the year. There have been more of these visitors on special per- 

 mits, and the number is likely to increase with the increasing 



' This is shown in the table for 1906. 



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