Director's Report for 1916 



In begiauing his Report of the activities of this Museum for 

 the year 191 6 the Director, with no little pleasure, notes an event 

 which was, he believes, intended to have taken place in the previous 

 year as a recognition of the twenty-fifth year of the Museum's con- 

 crete existence, 1890-19 15. Various accidents delayed the kind 

 intention and hence its place in the present Report. The event is 

 explained in the following letter from the Trustees' Records: 



"On motion of Mr. W. O. Smith, it was unanimously resolved 

 that the offer to the Museum by the persons who are at present 

 Trustees, of the portrait in oils of Dr. William T. Brigham by 

 Wilton Lock wood, be accepted and that the vSecretar^- be instructed 

 to send to the donors the letter of which the following is a copy: 



" 'The Bernice P. Bishop Museum accepts the gift made to 

 it by you of the portrait of Dr. Brigham painted by the late Wilton 

 Lock wood, and will be pleased to give it a place in the Picture 

 Gallery of the Museum. 



" 'Dr. Brigham, as the first Curator and Director of the Museum, 

 is one who might be said to have been present at its birth, who had 

 performed a very large share of the work of directing its course 

 from the stage when it was the treasure house of two private col- 

 lections of ancient Hawaiian handicraft to the Bernice P. Bishop 

 Museum of today. Dr. Brigham and his work can never be dis- 

 sociated from the Museum, its humble beginnings, its early diffi- 

 culties and struggles, its progress and development, and the work 

 it has already accomplished in the cause of science. 



" 'By this action of the Trustees a work of Art has been added 

 to the rich collections which are stored in the Museum, and so long 

 as the impressive monument of love known as the Bernice P. 



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