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Hawaii has come through a gift of a building to the College of 

 Hawaii from the C. AI. Cooke estate, and an arrangement with 

 the College whereby the Museum becomes the depository of 

 working and reference collections and a publication medium for 

 students. Close cooperation is effected by combining the duties 

 of the Director of the Alarine Laboratory and the Curator of 

 Marine Zoology in the Museum. 



Exhibition Halls 



A museum is an educational institution which furnishes in- 

 struction by means of suitably labeled exhibits. The quality of 

 the instruction offered is measured by the skill displayed in the 

 arrangement of exhibits and in the wording of explanatory labels, 

 rather than by the kind of material displayed. With this idea in 

 mind the exhibition halls of the Museum should be given thought- 

 ful consideration. Material not suitable for exhibition should be 

 stored, and a systematic arrangement devised for that which re- 

 mains in the exhibition halls. A complete re-labeling is also de- 

 sirable. 



The Museum is visited by many tourists but residents of 

 Hawaii constitute a much larger group. The use of the Museum 

 by citizens of Honolulu is large in proportion to the population and 

 the visits during the year by Hawaiians (3090). Chinese (2238), 

 Japanese (3756), and Portuguese (1205). indicate the estimation 

 in which the institution is held by those who wish to take advantage 

 of the instruction it has to offer. To accommodate those who are 

 unable to visit the Museum during the working hours of the week, 

 the halls have been open to the public on Sundays from 2 :oo to 

 5 :oo p. M. beginning September first. Mrs. Helvie reports that "the 

 attendance on Sunday afternoons has been gratifyingly large". It 

 is a pleasure to note that forty-six school classes in charge of their 

 teachers made special studies of the collections. 



Photographic Laboratory 



During the year, the large collection of photographic nega- 

 tives belonging to the Museum has been catalogued and made easy 

 of access by preparing a file of prints. These valuable photographs 

 are now available for use by members of the staff' and by visiting 



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