Director's A^imial Report. ii 



Mr. J. K. Farley of Koloa who provided me with a conveyance 

 and accompanied me to the beginning of the steeper ascent. In 

 Koloa I visited the sand dunes at Makahuena Point to look for 

 fossil shells, with the result reported by that department. 



"While on Kauai the coUedtions of the following residents 

 w^ere examined and interesting specimens photographed or bor- 

 rowed : Mrs. V. Knudsen, Mr. E. Knudsen, Mr. Albert Wilcox 

 and the Misses Wilcox, the latter the owners of the Kahlbaum 

 collection . The cast of the large stone covered with petroglyphs 



Fig. 5. FIJIAN CLUB GIVEN BY SIR EVERARD IM THURN. 



at Miss M. Damon's country place at Moanalua Valley was com- 

 pleted and placed in Haw^aiian Hall." The renewal of consider- 

 able flooring in the Picture Galler}' and elsewhere was rendered 

 necessar}' by the ravages of termites. 



Mr. Charles N. Forbes, Curator of Botany, reports: "All ma- 

 terial received prior to May, 1912, has been classified, mounted and 

 incorporated into the Herbarium ; while most material received 

 since that date has been classified. A large amount of time has 

 been spent in attempting to exterminate the various insect pests 

 which attack the specimens. During the year the whole Herba- 

 rium has been fumigated, once with carbon disulphide and twice 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas, the last being necessary- to check an 

 invasion of cigar beetles which did a large amount of damage 

 during my absence on Molokai. In the last few months work was 



started in poisoning all the specimens with corrosive sublimate. 



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