Director's Report for 1914 



During the year 1914 the number of visitors to the Museum has 

 been greater than ever before, and, what is more important, we 

 have had many more students devoted to continuous work in our 

 L/ibrary and Laboratory; some studying weeks at a time, and it 

 is probable that all found it worth their while. Mr. Mesterhazy 

 of Moskau made with remarkable speed and accuracy colored 

 drawings of our fruit casts and of many of our ethnological 

 specimens. Dr. F. von Luschan and Mrs. Emma von Luschan 

 spent a month at the Museum busily engaged in measuring our 

 collection of Hawaiian crania and skeletons, and also making 

 measurements and casts from life. This study proved so inter- 

 esting that these distinguished anthropologists hope to return to 

 these islands to extend their investigations.. The result obtained 

 from the Museum collecftions we hope to publish, fully illus- 

 trated, in our Memoirs. The necessar}- apparatus for the photo- 

 graphic illustration of crania could not be found in the United 

 States and has been ordered from Munich, although its arrival 

 has been delayed by the war in Europe ; from the same prob- 

 able cause anthropometrical instruments ordered from Zurich 

 are long overdue. 



The number of students in the Library emphasizes the need 

 for better library accommodations. The repairs made to the new 

 concrete Laboratory with the addition of a thick coat of paint 

 seems to have stopped the leakage all over the building, and 

 where paint has been applied to the inner walls as well, the result 

 is most satisfactory. [43] (3) 



