zoological gardens for the reception of the birds and animals of the 

 Pacific. Here the rare and beautiful birds of the region will be 

 brought and studied, as the results of the survey are procured. 

 The systematic and economic study of birds will be the major work 

 of this department of the Institution. The economic study of 

 birds is as yet almost an untrodden field of practical research. The 

 far-reaching value of investigation in this branch of the work can 

 scarcely be estimated. 



The Honolulu Aquarium is an institution of which the island 

 city is justly proud. The addition of rare varieties of fish to its 

 tanks, will, without doubt, make possible in time the bringing 

 together in the three institutions mentioned one of the most com- 

 plete living collections of the plant and animal life of a single region 

 to be found anywhere on the globe. 



The study of the marine botany and zoology will also be actively 

 pursued. The first department of the work to receive financial 

 support from one of Hawaii's generous citizens was the Biological 

 Station. In its laboratories the work in general and experi- 

 mental biology growing out of the survey will be carried on. In it, 

 as well as in the general institution, will be endowed tables of 

 research to which we are assured scientific men will resort from all 

 parts of the world. Work in the biological laboratory, where the 

 simpler forms of plant and animal can be exhaustively studied, has 

 come to be regarded as one of the most fruitful sources of research. 

 Many biologists believe that the laboratory is the workshop where 

 the answer to the old, old question as to the "origin of hfe" is being 

 forged. Who knows but that it may fall to Hawaii to provide for 

 the world the means and material with which to elucidate this 

 great riddle. It will be remembered by all that the great Pacific 

 in times passed furnished much of the fresh data and material^ 

 which in the hands of such philosophers as Darwin, Wallace, and 

 Gulick gave a solution for many of the most difficult problems 

 in evolution. 



DISPOSITION OF THE MATERIAL 



It is urged that the Bcrnice Pauahi Bishop Museum, by reason 

 of its central location within the region to be studied, be made the 



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