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it dies, and its remains should be scattered to the four winds, that 

 is, to enrich other living museums. That is why we are continu- 

 ally calling upon our Trustees for funds to purchase this or that, 

 and to organize expeditions to collect objedls and information. 

 If in doing this our legitimate work we can also afford amusement 

 and instrudlion to the public so much the better, but it should not 

 be a one-side arrangement as it has been in the past. No museum 

 in the world is sufficiently endowed to permit all the work that its 

 staff would like to do, or have done ; and in return for tht amuse- 

 ment or instruction afforded it seems right that the pviblic should 

 do more than criticise. Many of you have specimens that should 

 be in this Museum : they are of little value or use to you. Why 

 not send them here where their intrinsic value is greatly increased 

 b}^ comparison with others of the same class ? Many of you who 

 have none of these things can easil}' aid the work of the Museum 

 by subscribing for its publications, which may not be of especial 

 interest to you, but the subscription helps to make them better, 

 and the smallness of the edition will, in no distant time, make a .set 

 of considerable money value. Five dollars a year would secure 

 all our publications as issued. [Here the Diredlor referred to 

 wants of the Museum which are mainly of local interest and may 

 be omitted here.] 



Now let me briefly tell you what we have done. We have 

 separated the Hawaiian exhibit as the most extensive and import- 

 ant in our possession and placed the greater part of it in a hall 

 where it is classified and arranged so that anyone can at once find 

 what most interests him. The non-Hawaiian things are also placed 

 by themselves, each group in a separate alcove. Then all these 

 things that to the general visitor are simply "curios" become the 

 objecfls of careful and patient study : they are photographed for 

 publication in the printed results of such study and thej^ are com- 

 pared with similar objects in other museums or made by other 

 peoples. For .some eight years I did this work alone ; now I have 

 a .staff of young men trained, hard-working, skilled and learned as 

 you all may see by looking round at the results of their labors. 

 The groups of Hawaiiaus presenting the work of former days : the 

 model of the heiau, and of Kilauea : the fruits that are so true to 

 nature, and the fish that have never been better exhibited in any 

 museum all prove my statement. Are thev not worthy of your 



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