Director' s x-iwuiial Report. 31 



"The following list shows the number of specimens received 

 during the year. All except duplicates have been incorporated in 

 the collection. 



Rev. J. M. Lydgate, Kauai 2 



Mr. G. C. Munro, Lanai 117 



Mr. G. C. Munro, Maui 40 



Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., Molokai 2 



Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., Oahu 3 



Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, Oahu 5 



Dr. Wm. T. Brigham, Oahu 2 



Mr. C. G. Lloyd (of Cincinnati, Ohio), Hawaii i 



Curator's collection, Oahu 377 



Cu-ator's collection, Molokai 329 



Curator's collection, Hawaii 2100 



Total number of specimens 2979 



Pulttionata. From the report of Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., I quote: 



"For the year 191 5 your Curator can report further progress. 

 Many of the 'lots' of fossil shells have been catalogued and not as 

 many new 'lots' have been received. In getting this material sorted 

 and catalogued the Curator has been forced, by lack of time, to place 

 only a small portion of each of the 'lots' in the collection. In some 

 of the deposits the shells are so thickly distributed in the earth that 

 as many as eight hundred whole specimens have been found to be 

 the average in a cubic inch of soil. What has remained (and by 

 far the larger portion of the 'lots') is carefully labeled as to date, 

 locality, and what catalogue numbers have been entered against 

 the 'lot'. It is then stored in the laboratory. Additional speci- 

 mens may be sorted out at some future date if needed for further 

 study. Undoubtedly from six months to a year's time might be 

 spent in completely sorting and cataloguing all specimens in these 

 fossil 'lots', but most of this time could be spent to more advan- 

 tage in other ways. 



"Forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (41,888) 

 specimens were catalogued during the year, being distributed over 

 2,518 catalogue numbers. The Curator collected 33,807 speci- 

 mens. Mr. Forbes collected 3,197, and the remainder, 4,884, were 

 gifts from friends of the Museum. Twenty-five thousand one 

 hundred and twelve (25,112), of the specimens might properly be 

 termed fossils. [147] 



