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as England should not find the means to build a palace worthy of 

 the treasures her explorers have brought home, which are now 

 laid aside for want of room in a museum where ethnology is of very 

 secondary importance, or exhibited in dark rooms with insufficient 

 labels and no catalogue for the visitor, or scattered through museum 

 buildings intended for other puposes and often grandly fulfilling 

 those purposes. 



In the South Kensington Industrial Museum are two fine 



Maori carved canoe prows deposited by H. R. H. the Duke of 



Edinburgh to whom they were given while he was in New Zealand. 



In the Kew Garden Museums are the following from Hawaii: — 



A Lagenaria gourd of the largest size with cover and net. Many 



kapas wrongly attributed; seeds of Gardenia brighamii. From 



Fiji a fine coconut fibre model of a temple given by Dr. Berthold 



Seemann the distinguished botanist: The Royal United Service 



Mu.seum in Whitehall Palace has a ver}- interesting ethnological 



colledlion of which the Secretary of the Club kindly permitted 



photographs to be taken. Arranged on the walls of the entrance 



are many fine spears and clubs. 



Hawaiian Islands. 



Helmet of good form with broad crest, of plaited rush, with no 



signs of feathers. Hula drum of admirably carved coconut wood 



and with shark -skin head. Kupee ilio or anklet of dog-teeth of 



large size but discolored and dilapidated. 2 Boar tusk bracelets, 



one of entire teeth the other of cut ones. Newa of kauila wood. 



Stem of a coconut tree "pierced by two musket balls" during the 



Cook episode (Capt. H. W. Bruce). Knife of Shark -teeth of 



unusual form, open in the middle, with 9 teeth on each side and 



one at the end. Another of common form with 8 teeth. 



Neiv Zealand . 

 Mere of greenstone 19 inches long; another almost as large; 5 of 

 common form; 2 of jade. 4 Patu of carved wood, 3 patu of 

 whale rib. 3 Jade adzes. Canoe stern, rather small. 4 Taiaha, 

 labelled paddles. 2 Tewhatewha or battle axes. 



Tongan Islands. 

 Drum of wood the lower half of the cylinder elaborately carved, 

 as are the knobs for attaching the cords which tighten the drum- 



