REPORT. 



IN inaugurating" a system of Annual Reports of a more formal 

 character than has hitherto obtained during the few years 

 since the opening of the Museum, it may not be out of place 

 to state the nature and objecfts of this institution. In the Deed 

 of Trust under which the Mviseum was e.stablished by Charles 

 Reed Bishop the Trustees are directed to apply ''the net income (a) 

 in and toicard the maintenance, conduct and (to such extent as they 

 sha/t in their absolute discretion think fit ) further equipment and 

 development of the said Berniee P. Bishop Museum as a scientife in- 

 stitution for eolleelino, preserving , storing and exhibiting specimens 

 of Poh')iesia)i and hindred Antiqjtities, Ethnology and Natural His- 

 tory , and books treating of, and pictures illustrating the same, and 

 for the examination , i)ivestigation , treatment and study of said speci- 

 mois and the publication of pictures thereof, and of the results of such 

 investigation and study, and ( b ) if the said Trustees or their succes- 

 sors in the trust, shall in their absolute discretion think: fit, in the pur- 

 chase or lease of suitable site or suitable sites for, and in the erection , 

 furnishing , equipping and conducting also as a scientife institution , 

 on the Island oj Oahu , Republic of Haii'aii, a Mari)ie Aquarium and 

 Biological /laboratory, but tfie trust in favor of the Berniee P. Bishop 

 Museum shall always and in all things have precedoicc and be para- 

 mount over the trust in favor of the said J/arine Aquariuni and 

 Biological Laboratory .' ' 



Working in these lines the Museum has "preserved, .stored 

 and exhibited" svich specimens as have come to it by gift or pur- 

 chase, and as will be seen by the lists of accessions during the past 

 3^ear many specimens have Ijeen added in this way, but in the first 



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