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ADMINISTRATION. By a director, responsible to the board of 

 trustees. 



SCOPE. The primary purposes of the museum are research and 

 exploration. 



LIBRARY. 8000 volumes and pamphlets of a scientific character 

 intended for the use of the staff. 



PUBLICATIONS, (i) Occasional Papers, containing annual reports 

 and research articles. Of this series two complete volumes have been 

 issued and two others are in course of publication at the end of 1909. 

 (2) Memoirs, devoted to research articles. Two complete volumes of 

 this series have been issued. (3) Fauna Hawaiiensis, three volumes 

 issued. 



ATTENDANCE. The museum is open free to the public on Friday 

 and Saturday of each week. The attendance for 1909 was 11,846. 



BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 FORESTRY. 



This board is the agricultural department of the territory of 

 Hawaii, and although it does not maintain a formal museum it has 

 working collections of insects and a growing herbarium. The insect 

 collection consists of approximately 10,000 specimens representing 

 2500 species and including 6 type specimens of Aleyrodidae and 3 of 

 Coccidae. There are also about 5000 unmounted specimens. Special 

 attention is paid to Coleoptera and Coccidae. 



The herbarium consists of approximately 800 cryptogams and 6100 

 phanerogams including 6 types of genera. 



There is also a library of about 10,000 volumes related especially 

 to entomology, forestry, and botany, and including a somewhat exten- 

 sive collection of tropical and subtropical floras and manuals of botany. 



The collections and library are open free to the public for reference, 

 and special assistance is given those desiring to carry on particular 

 jnvestigations. 



DAMON PRIVATE MUSEUM. 



Mr. S. M. Damon has on his estate of Moanalua a series of about 

 500 ethnological specimens, mostly native, and about 35 pictures, 

 including oils, water colors, and engravings. These are arranged for 

 the purpose of exhibition in two native grass houses which are open 

 free to the public on Saturday afternoons. 



HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION. Experiment 

 Station. 



The insect cabinets of the station contain about 5000 specimens of 



