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Estate. This frame was cut by stone tools from the hardest and 

 most durable of Hawaiian woods, as Jiaio and kauila and iihiuhi, 

 so that while the ends buried in the earth show signs of decay the 

 part exposed to the air is fresh and complete as when made sO' 

 many score of years ago. The frame has been bound together by 

 braid of iikiiiki leaves and the thatch of bili grass attached by the 

 same means. 



Mr. Stokes has, during the year, nearly completed his admir- 

 able model of the Wahaula heiau which is to be exhibited in 

 Hawaiian Hall. As this ancient temple was the last one adlually 

 used in the former worship, and is in a situation remote from the 

 present population, and unsuited to the cultivation of sugar cane, 

 it has been possible to .secure most of the original constru(ftion, or 

 rather (as it was rebuilt several times by chiefs of Hawaii) of the 

 construdlion last used for worship. Mr. Stokes and the Director 

 spent some time camping in the heiau making careful measure- 

 ments and photographs, from which Mr. Stokes has built with the 

 very stones of the temple, what I consider a very accurate repre- 

 sentation of an ancient heiau. Mr. Bryan has added with great 

 skill a miniature grove of coconut trees. 



Mr. Walcott has completed the great task of rewriting the ac- 

 cession book, comparing each specimen with the description and 

 number in the most painstaking manner. He has also arranged 

 the ver}' extensive card index of contemporary zoological literature 

 of the Concilio Bibliographico of Zurich. 



Mr. Thompson has made many casts of the Hawaiian fishes, 

 and already the collection stored in Hawaiian Hall is a most inter- 

 esting and beautiful illustration of the Hawaiian fish fauna ; one 

 that we should hope to complete. Mr. Thompson's work received 

 the emphatic approval of the gentlemen of the United States Fish 

 Commission, and I doubt if so good representations of fish can be 

 found in any museum. Few persons can have a ju.st idea of the 

 variety and beauty of the Hawaiian fi.sh as .shown in this work. 

 The necessary removal and partial demolition b}- storm of Mr. 



