Director's Report for jqiS. 



RELICS. 



Durint; the \car two royal standards were received, for each of whicli 

 was claimed llie distinction of being llic royal standard lowered at the over- 

 throw of the 1 lawaiian monarchy in 1893. One was given liy !\[r. A. A. Brown 

 of San Francisco, and the other hy Mr. George \i. Smitliies of Honolulu. 

 The flags arc of similar design hut differ in other respects. In the hope of 

 establishing the identity of this historical specimen, incpiiries ha\e been 

 made among persons who witnessed tlie revolution, but with no deiuiitc 

 results. 



Mr. Smithies also presented, in the name of his wife, many other 

 relics including the sword of his late Majesty Kalakaua. Mrs. Smithies was 

 the daughter of the late Colonel Saiuuel Nowlein, wdio commanded the 

 body guard of the Queen, at the time of her deposal. 



Acknowledgments of gifts have been sent to Mesdames C. M. Cooke 

 and C. X. Forbes; Messrs. L. J. Bouge, A. A. Brown, Bruce Cartwright, Jr., 

 C. Montague Cooke, Jr., C. M. Cooke IK, H. E. Cooper, S. B. Dole, A. F. 

 Judd, James Munro, R. Xui, G. W. Paty, A. Perry, J. W. Pratt, H. 

 Roberts, W. S. Rycroft and G. E. Smithies; the Hawaiian Evangelical 

 Association and the Twenty-tifth Infantry, U. S. A. 



While Prof. J. Macmillan Brown, vice-dean of the L'ni\ersity of New 

 Zealand, visited the Hawaiian Islands, to continue Iiis Polynesian researches, 

 it became the good fortune of the curator of ethnology to conduct the noted 

 anthropologist to various parts of the island of Oahu. 



PaOIONATA. 



Dr. C. M()ntaj:(tie Cooke, Cttiator of I'tilinoiiata, reports for his 

 (lepartir.ent as follows : 



During the past year, fewer shells have been added to the collection than 

 in any year since the curator has been employed by the Museum. The reason 

 for this is that a little more than half of the year was spent in preparation 

 of a manuscript dealing with the Hawaiian Pupillidae. The whole of the 

 Museum collection of our species belonging to this family ( catalogued up 

 to December 31, 1917) has now been classified and arranged. .V large 

 number of new species was found in the collection, as about two-thirds of 

 the species and varieties dealt with are new. The numuscript has beeti 

 slightly enlarged by Dr. Pilsbury and will appear shortly in the Manual 

 of Conchology. 



Five thousand one hundred and ninety-eight (5198) specimens were 

 catalogued during the year. These specimens are distributed in five hundred 

 and sixty-seven (567) catalogue numbers. Specimens have been received 

 from the following: Mrs. G. W. Bryan, Miss M. Burbank, :\Iiss :\I. Clough, 

 Messrs. J. S. Emerson, C. F. Mant, A. Gouveia, J. C. Bridwell and E. R. 

 Davis. 



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