Director s Report for igi". 5 



may have different plans for the needed assistants, and his hand 



should be free. 



The Staff at the end of 191 7 was as follows: 



William T. Brighatn, Sc.D. (Columbia) - - Director 

 William H. Dall, Ph.D. - Honorary Curator of Mollusca 

 John F. G. Stokes - Curator of Polynesian Ethnology 

 C. Montague Cooke, Ph.D. ( Yale) - Curatorof Puhnonata 

 Charles N. Forbes . . - Curator of Botany 



Otto H. vSwezey - - Honorary Curator of Entomology 

 John W. Thompson - - - Artist and Modeler 

 Miss Elizabeth B. Higgins . _ . Librarian 



John J. Greene ------ Printer 



M. L. Horace Rej-nolds - - - Cabinet Maker 

 Mrs. Helen M. Helvie - Superintendent of Exhibitions 

 John Lung Chung, Thomas Keolanui and John Pen- 

 chula -------- Janitors 



To all of these the Director tenders his heartfelt thanks for 

 most ready and unfailing assistance and cooperation which has 

 made his labor pleasant among many difficulties and disappoint- 

 ments, and without which the Museum could not have held its 

 creditable position. 



During the year Hon. Samuel M. Damon and Alfred \V. Carter 

 have resigned from the Board of Trustees and Mr. William William- 

 son and Mr. Richard H. Trent have been appointed in their place. 



Bthnology. — Mr. Stokes reports as follows: 



"Accessions. — These are listed in the following pages. The 

 number and total value show a great falling off from the average 

 of the few preceding 3'ears, which can be explained, though onlj- 

 partly, by the Curator's activit}- in other branches of Museum 

 work. Some of the gifts and loans, however, are worthy of especial 

 notice. Among the former may be mentioned the body part of a 

 canoe dug up in a peat bog on Washington Island and presented 

 by the Greig brothers, and two wooden idols given by the Pacific 

 Mill Co. through the kindness of Mr. J. W. Waldron. 



"Of the loans there should be mentioned a large general collec- 

 tion from Mr. A. L. C. Atkinson, which represented well the tools 

 of the Hawaiians; it also included a drum, and a damaged speci- 

 men of the very rare Necker Island images. Mrs. E. K. Mehrten 



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