8 Director' s Annual Report. 



To return to the internal condition of the Bishop Museum. 

 The gentlemen of the staff have welcomed back to their number 

 Mr. J. W. Thompson, our formatore and artist after an absence of 

 a year, and have greatly regretted parting with their colleague of 

 some years Mr. W. A. Bryan, Taxidermist and Curator of Orni- 

 thology, who resigned in April to go in quest of funds to establish 

 a proposed Pacific Scientific Institute. His attractive groups of 

 bird life in the gallery of Hawaiian Hall, as well as his usefulness 

 in many ways will give him an honorable place among the builders 

 of this Museum, and a suitable successor wall be hard to find. 

 Mr. H. F. Sturtevant was appointed temporary assistant during 

 the summer vacation, and, as on a former occasion, was very suc- 

 cessful in his work. 



The Museum Press, in charge of Mr. J. J. Greene, has issued 

 two Memoirs, constituting two parts of Volume II of the Memoirs, 

 entitled "Mat and Basket Weaving of the Ancient Hawaiians," by 

 William T. Brigham, and "Hawaiian Nets and Nettings," b}' 

 J. F. G. Stokes, (No. i) pp. 162, with 166 illustrations in the text 

 and 16 plates, one colored; and "Old Hawaiian Carvings found in 

 a cave on the Island of Hawaii:" by William T. Brigham, (No. 2) 

 20 pp., with 21 illustrations in the text and i plate. Two Occa- 

 sional Papers, — the "Direcftor's Report for 1905," pp. 45, with 8 

 illustrations and a map; and "Fishes of the vSoutheastern Pacific:" 

 by Alvin Seale, pp. 89, and 23 plates. It is believed that the 

 high standard adopted by this department has been fully sustained 

 by the printer. 



In addition to his work in his especial department of Poly- 

 nesian Ethnology, where he has expended considerable labor in 

 caring for our large colledlions, and has examined and appraised 

 several important private colle(5tions of Hawaiian antiquities, Mr. 

 J. F. G. Stokes has mounted in a very satisfactory manner a con- 

 siderable portion of the fine colledtion of the Hawaiian Corals 

 made by Messrs. Stokes, Cooke and Duerden, and identified and 



