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Modeling. — Mr. J. W. Thompson, our Artist and Modeler, 

 has been fulh- occupied during the year. He reports as cast and 

 painted twenty-six ethnological specimens, some for the traveling 

 collection, others of loans, among the latter remarkable copies of 

 wooden idols; also sixteen casts of fish, five of fruit, two of mollusks, 

 two of Hippocampus, a total of fifty-one finished models. In addition 

 to these, fifteen unfinished casts. He has also prepared two bird 

 skins and two crabs. Among the fish was one born without a tail, 

 apparently a new species of Chaetodontidse. The collection of fish 

 casts in this Museum now far surpasses any similar collection and 

 surely deserves a handbook, but before this can be written the 

 many species in the collection unnamed and undescribed should be 

 studied by an expert, and the Museum has no curator of marine 

 zoology. 



Hntomology. — Quoting from the report of the Honorary 

 Curator Mr. Otto H. Sweze}^ where he speaks of the Helms collec- 

 tion: "This large collection will furnish an inexhaustible source 

 of entomological work in the future, as a great deal of it consists of 

 unnamed specimens, and it will always be of great value for refer- 

 ence by the entomologists of Honolulu, as well as of interest to the 

 casual visitor, as it contains so many beautiful and queer forms, as 

 well as many of immense size and peculiar structures." 



While the orders Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, Lepidop- 

 tera, Hymenoptera and Neuroptera were transferred from the old 

 boxes in which they came to the Museum to the new cabinet 

 drawers without any special study, of the Coleoptera the large 

 families Cicindelidae, Carabidae, Scarabaeidae, Buprestidae, Tene- 

 brionidae, Cerambycidae and Chrysomelidae were specially studied 

 to determine their proper arrangement in the cabinets. There yet 

 remain to be transferred part of the ChrNSomelidae, the Curculi- 

 onidae and several minor families, and the New Zealand Coleoptera. 



In referring to the work on the Hawaiian collections Mr. 

 Swezey continues: "The Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Diptera and part 



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