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passed Enderby, the last of these line islands. No lagoon but the 

 island has been worked for guano. Several rectangular mounds 

 were seen ; some dark green trees ; a row of coconuts on the north- 

 west; wreckage on the south point, and the bows of a steel vessel 

 of small size on the eastern shore. 



Early in the morning of December 3rd we arrived at Honolulu 

 on the date I had fixed in London, so exact is modern travel when 

 undisturbed by storms or accidents, from all of which we had been 

 mercifully preserved. 



After some weeks rest, including a visit to the volcano of Kilauea 

 and drives about Oahu, and a careful study of the Bishop Museum, 

 Mr. Clarence M. Wilson, my faithful secretary and agreeable com- 

 panion, departed to examine for me certain American museums it 

 had not been possible for me to visit in my hurried trip across the con- 

 tinent to catch the steamer at Boston whence our joint journey began . 

 The notes he has sent me, added to more or less knowledge gained on 

 former visits, will complete the chain of museums for this report. 



In Chicago the Field Museum of Natural History (formerly 

 the Field Columbian Museum), of which Frederick J. V. Skiff is 

 Dire(5tor, was visited, and in the absence of the Director, Dr. C. F. 

 Millspaugh, Curator of Botany, acted as host and showed all things 

 desired. This great institution is experiencing all the trouble and 

 confusion of unsuitable and outgrown quarters, but compensated 

 in great measure by the knowledge that a far better building 

 (Fig. 174) is soon to take the place of the present unfit and almost 

 ruinous structure, a relic of the Columbian Exposition. Prepara- 

 tions are being made and specimen groups are being stored in 

 anticipation of removal, so it is not a suitable time to report the 

 condition of the collections. The few from the Pacific region on 

 exhibition are listed in the sequel, but many are stored for study or 

 preservation . I do not find great accessions in this department since 

 the last visit of Dr. Brigham (as shown in his li.sts), while from 

 neighboring regions the ethnographic colle(5lions have considerably 

 increased, for example, Mr. Robert F. Cummings made it possible 

 to purchase a fine Philippine collection. [Except in Holland these 

 specimens are very rare in museums. — W. T. B.] 



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