Director' s Annual Report. 7 



"While in Honolulu the collection in the Museum was care- 

 fully gone over. The collections of Messrs. Thurston, Wilder and 

 J. S, Emerson were also studied. Particular attention was paid 

 to the collection of Mr. Irwin Spalding. This collection, in the 

 opinion of the writer, is the largest and finest of the Oahuan tree- 

 shells ever put together. 



"The most important trip of the year was to Palmyra Island. 

 The writer was the guest of Judge Henry E. Cooper. Two or 

 three weeks were spent in preparation for this trip as everything 

 necessary for collecting or preserving had to be taken along. It is 

 needless to say that the trip was a success as twenty-seven boxes 

 and bags of specimens are the result. 



"Sixteen days were spent on the island and all kinds of speci- 

 mens of animal life were taken, except birds. Several hundred 

 specimens of coral, crabs, fish, etc., are now in the Museum as a 

 result of the trip. Dr. Clark has kindly consented to name the 

 echinoderms collected. The rest of the specimens collected will 

 have to be referred to specialists. Of the land-shells onh- three 

 specimens were found. Two species were very common and the 

 third extremely rare. Undoubtedly all of the species were acci- 

 dentally introduced by man when the coconuts were taken there 

 for planting. This trip occupied about six, and several weeks 

 were spent on the writer's return in sorting and cleaning the 

 specimens. 



"The sources of the material catalogued and added to the 

 collection during the year are as follows: 



Collected by the Curator 439^ 



Collected by C. N. Forbes 5198 



Collected by Irving vSpalding 1051 



Collected by J. vS. Emerson 1938 



Collected by others 29 



Total 1 2,607 



"Besides these there are numbers of specimens given or ex- 

 changed from Messrs. A. F. Judd and D. Thaanum which have 

 not as yet been catalogued. 



