4 Director's Auuiial Report. 



The iMitomological Room has been fitted with suitable furni- 

 ture and racks for steel cases. In the Publication Room the ad- 

 ditional cases authorized will have been installed before this 

 report is issued. For Dr. Cooke's room fine new cases have been 

 made in the Museum for the storage of shells. In the Casting 

 Room suitable means have been provided for the speedy drying 

 of moulds and casts. 



In Hawaiian Hall the relics of the chiefs have been removed 

 to the upper gallery, and the botanical collections for exhibition 

 will be placed in the same gallery as soon as the bird skins now 

 there can be transferred to the steel cases now oi roiite from New 

 York. After this the gallery will be open to the public. In it 

 hive been placed temporarily the Connelly collection of Australian 

 specimens, and the Etheridge collecftion of specimens mainly 

 from the New Hebrides. Here also are the loan collecftions of 

 Hawaiian origin. 



The new edition of the portion of the Museum handbook re- 

 lating to Hawaiian Hall is nearly complete and will probably be 

 issued b}' the time the upper gallery is open to visitors. A sepa- 

 rate catalogue of the fish casts is in preparation to be issued as 

 soon as the new species have been determined by the distinguished 

 authority to whom they have been referred. This will be a notable 

 publication, as our colledlion of casts and notes on the fish from 

 which these have been made embraces essentially all the import- 

 ant food fish of the group. It is also proposed to have a separate 

 section of the handbook for the volcanic specimens, and for the 

 Polynesian and Melanesian collections when the hall for the latter 

 is built. This much to explain the form of publication: the former 

 handbook covered the entire collection. 



Our publications have been limited to the Director's Report 

 for 191 3 in the Occasional Papers. No Memoirs have been issued, 

 but much work has been done on certain papers for future publi- 

 cation. Our exchange list has increased during the ^•ear as will 



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