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admirable casts would be almost useless for the purpose intended — 

 to illustrate the most important or characleristic employments of 

 old Hawaiians. It may be noted that we had no little difficulty in 

 obtaining models of good types, and also in arranging the pose, so 

 little are the ancient handicrafts pradlised at the present day. In 

 taxidermy Mr. Bryan's method is the same used with such capital 

 success in South Kensington, New York and other great museums, 

 and it marks the passing of the old method of mounting stuffed 

 birds upon stiff perches without any of their natural surroundings. 

 We may place his work in the front ranks of modern taxiderni}'. 



Mr. J. F. G. Stokes has been ni}- chief assistant now for several 

 years, has acfled as I^ibrarian of our small but very choice working 

 librar}-, and he has also kept most of our accounts as well as helped 

 in most of the Museum work. In special work he has coUvStrudled 

 a capital model of the ancient heiau of Wahiula in Puna, Hawaii, 

 from surveys and photographs made by him and the Director while 

 camped in the once sacred enclosure. Messrs. Stokes and Walcott, 

 during the early part of the j'ear, went through the entire 

 collection checking specimens by the catalogues and replacing any 

 damaged labels. 



Mr. Blackman has, in addition to the various duties of lending 

 a hand in the Museum work, engaged in the preparation and stud}- 

 of some of the principal fibres native to these Islands or grown here, 

 and his results are presented herewith. It is believed that with the 

 awakening interest in the cultivation of fibrous plants, especially 

 sisal, his work in this line will be of considerable interest and value. 



Mr. Cooke has been with us but a part of the year, but his 

 coUedlions and study have advanced to that point that I have re- 

 quested him to prepare an essay on the curious subject of distribu- 

 tion of our Land Shells, and his essay is also submitted. 



Mr. Greene has kept the Printing Department at the high level 

 attained in former 3'ears, and in addition to the routine work of a 

 Museum Press, including labels, tables, blanks and notices, he has 

 prepared the Annual Report, Memoir No. 4 on Hawaiian vStone 



