8 Director' s Annua! Report. 



Implements, and No. 5 Supplementary Notes on Hawaiian Feather 

 Work. Some work has been done on the Handbook to the Museum, 

 a work of which the need has long been apparent to those in charge 

 ot the Museum, but which could not be issued hitherto owing to 

 the impending rearrangement of the colle(5lions. The first volume 

 of Occasional Papers has been issued, and we have also completed 

 the first volume of Memoirs, making a quarto volume of more than 

 four hundred and fifty pages, with sixty-nine plates, two of them in 

 colors, and two hundred and sixty-two figures in the text, both 

 plates and textual illustrations being in general representations of 

 obje(5ls in the Museum which have been photographed b)' the 

 Direcftor and reproduced in half-tone or zincograph by the Sunset 

 Photo-Engraving Company of San Francisco, whose careful and 

 excellent work has added much to the value of the illustrations. 



The work of the Museum has not been wholly confined to an 

 attempt to cater for the amusement of the public, which should 

 always be a secondar}^ object with a museum of the characfler of 

 the Bishop Museum. The colledlion and diffusion of knowledge 

 and the preservation, for the use of future students, of the evidence 

 collecfted, that our successors may have better means and greater 

 knowledge for interpreting, should always be first in importance. 

 Situated as we are within the tropics, with a maximum of clear and 

 very actinic sunlight, it is impossible to exhibit constantly many 

 of our greatest treasures, as the feather work, birds, shells and 

 kapas for the fading caused by daily exposure would mean destruc- 

 tion within ten years, and destrudlion of what can never be replaced. 

 Things that in I^ondon could be lighted daily by the comparatively 

 feeble sunlight of that region without much loss of color for years 

 could not bear with the same impunity a month of Honolulu bright- 

 ness. In illustration of this I may state that labels printed with 

 rubber stamps, using the best "record ink", and type-written matter 

 black enough when made, were quite illegible after three years 

 exposure, not to sunlight but to the diffused light of the galleries. 



In collecfting Mr. Scale has passed the year in the southeast- 



