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have uot a complete Hawaiian skeleton, and only two, a male 

 adult from Malekula in the New Hebrides, and an Australian male 

 given by Dr. E.G. Stirling, of Adelaide. We should have these 

 of all the Pacific races. Of crania we have a better supply, and 

 Mr. Seale has sent from the southeast Pacific .some very interesting 

 specimens. We need more, and also measurements, photographs 

 and physical statistics including casts of hands and feet. Phono- 

 graphic records of ancient Hawaiian oli have been obtained by the 

 kindness of Mrs. P. H. Weaver of the Lunalilo Home, but more 

 are needed. Our casts, made with great care from the entire body 

 of six specimens, some of them of exceptionally good development 

 in these degenerate days, are of a value that cannot be over- 

 estimated. I wish we had more of them, for they show what no 

 .series of photographic studies can show so well, if at all. 



In our collection of Hawaiian arms there are many lacunae. 

 We need more clubs or newa ; more barbed spears ; more daggers 

 and ihe pahee. While we have an extensive colletlion of the large 

 spears (pololu) there are mu.seums in the United States that have 

 more of the smaller spears than we can boast. We need more of 

 the leiomano and larger shark teeth weapons. Our Ethnological 

 collecftions from other parts of the Pacific have not received im- 

 portant additions, with the exception that from Easter I.sland and 

 Tahiti we have received a number of very valuable things, the gift 

 of Mr. J. L. Young; and from the Marquesas and neighboring 

 French islands our colleclor, Mr. Seale, has added many things, 

 as will be .seen by the lists appended. While in the eastern States in 

 the Spring the Direcflor was able to get some choice specimens from 

 Mangaia and the Solomon Islands, which had been brought home 

 in the early part of the last century. As Honolulu was built up 

 largely by the whaling indvi.stry it seemed desirable to recall to the 

 memory of its present inhabitants the implements of that pursuit, 

 once so familiar here ; and by the kindness of Mes.srs. Wing of 

 New Bedford the Museum was presented with a set of tools ex- 

 hibited at one of the French Expositions. 



