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the needed adjoining room. I was successful, and was superin- 

 tending the packing of the specimens for removal when Captain 

 Mist, secretary in the Foreign (Jffice, came hurriedl\- in and told 

 me that the "Charleston" was signalled with her flag at half-mast, 

 and as Kalakaua was returning on her it was probable that he 

 was dead. I at once went out and got all the help I could, engaged 

 all the express carts to bring me packing cases, and before the end 

 of that eventful day the whole collection was dumped on the floors 

 of the new museum. A change of government might keep the 

 museum in its old place for the present, and I would take no 

 chances. 



In those early days the interest of Mr. Bishop centred in the 

 preservation and exhibition of the relics of Mrs. Bishop, and it 

 was some time before I thought best to broach my plan for a 

 general Polynesian museum. At first he did not take kindly to it, 

 but at last consented to build Polynesian Hall, although he finally 

 left the islands before the cases were placed in this first addition 

 to the original edifice. In the meantime he had transferred me 

 together with the building and its collections to a Board of Trustees, 

 and I, finding that Dr. Alexander had plans for writing a more 

 extensive history of the Hawaiian Islands than he had attempted 

 in his brief history of these islands already published, withdrew 

 in favor of one so much more competent, and devoted my time 

 entirely to the installation of the Polynesian exhibits in the new 

 hall and in the preparation of plans for a more extensive Hawaiian 

 Hall, even then needed. 



Beyond this I need not follow the history, but I must mention 

 the last connection he had with this Museum when he had passed 

 his ninety-third birthday. On April 14, 1915, I had taken a large 

 photograph of Hawaiian Hall interior to send to him, and this he 

 had framed, and he expressed his pleasure to me in the last note I 

 had from his pen. In May, my secretary, Mr. Dean H. Lake, 

 called on him at his residence in Berkeley, and Mr. Bishop took 



down the picture and asked Mr. Lake a number of questions as to 



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