REPORT 



"VVTHILE it is most gratifying to a Director to report substantial 

 " gains and general prosperity of the institution in his charge, 



no such ofificer can escape the general law of changing light and 

 shade, and he must at times recognize the fact that there are sea- 

 sons when the results are not in proportion to the labor expended 

 and not such as each member of the Museum staff has honestly 

 and industriously striven to attain. 



Such has been the \ear just closed. Perhaps of all the few 

 years of the life of this Museum hitherto the one of which it must 

 be admitted that we cannot marshal this list of accessions, that 

 table of attendance, an increased number of workers, better ac- 

 commodation for the work, or even many additional attractions 

 for the amusement or instruction of the public. 



While Mr. Otto H. Swezey has joined us as honorary Curator 

 of Entomology, and Miss H. Schupp as Librarian, we have lost 

 Mr. \V. A. Bryan who, early in the year was reappointed Taxi- 

 dermist and Curator of Ornithology for six months, this term ex- 

 piring Jul}- 31st. Both our publications and our exhibition cases 

 will suffer from the loss, and it will be difficult to fill the place of 

 so active and successful a worker. Mr. L. G. Blackman, who has 

 for years been a most acceptable librarian and general assistant, 

 listened to the lure of his favorite occupation of teaching and left 

 us to become head master of the recently founded Aliiolani College 

 in this city. The Museum has lost strength in his departure. 

 Mr. Hugh F. Sturtevant, who has for several summer vacations 



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