i6 Director's Aiinual Report. 



"Forty-one days were spent in the field by the Curator, during 

 which 35,533 specimens were collected. Of these over 14,000 were 

 fossil. The most important trip was to the island of Molokai, dur- 

 ing which over 14,000 recent shells were collected, and four new 

 deposits of fossil shells were discovered. The next trip of impor- 

 tance was to Kaipapau, Oahu, where besides collecting a number 

 of recent specimens several very remarkable fossil deposits were 

 discovered, in one of which the shells averaged over 700 to the 

 cubic inch of soil." 



Shells have been received and catalogued as follows: 



The Curator 35.533 



Members of the Museum staff 1,860 



I. Spalding 449 



J. S. Rinerson i ,476 



A. F. Judd 93 



Whitney collection, given by Mr. Mclnerny 561 



Thwing collection 12,156 



Others* 709 



Total 52,837 



In the geological department we have received from Chevalier 

 F. A. Perret a lava bomb from Hawaii; Mr. F. B. Dodge, a bomb 

 from Kilauea; from the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association, 

 lava cast of banana stump, Hawaii. 



In other departments: Father Rougier, Fanning Island, plas- 

 tron of tortoise, Christmas Island. Andrew C. Westervelt, Hono- 

 lulu, tail of male lyre-bird; and 5 madreporarian corals, Fiji. 

 Mrs. H. P. Baldwin, Maui, skeletal part of a gymnoblastic In-droid, 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



By purchase: 10 bird nests, 2 bird skins. Hawaii. 



In giving below the table of attendance for the past year 



I have thought it interesting to compare it with that of the 



two previous years. The number of white visitors constantly 



*In this lot were contributions from Misses Alice, Martha and Carolene 

 Cooke, Messrs. R. Scudder, R. and W. Hitchcock, \V. Mutch, D. Pratt Pod- 

 more, W. P. Alexander, Weedon, R. von Holt, O. P. Kmerson, and Charles 

 M. Cooke (III). [128] 



