


REPORT 
HILE it is most gratifying to a Director to report substantial 
gains and general prosperity of the institution in his charge, 
no such officer can escape the general law of changing light and 
shade, and he must at times recognize the fact that there are sea- 
sons when the results are not in proportion to the labor expended 
and not such as each member of the Museum staff has honestly 
and industriously striven to attain. 
Such has been the year just closed. Perhaps of all the few 
years of the life of this Museum hitherto the one of which it must 
be admitted that we cannot marshal this list of accessions, that 
table of attendance, an increased number of workers, better ac- 
commodation for the work, or even many additional attractions 
for the amusement or instruction of the public. 
While Mr. Otto H. Swezey has joined us as honorary Curator 
of Entomology, and Miss E. Schupp as Librarian, we have lost 
Mr. W. A. Bryan who, early in the year was reappointed Taxi- 
dermist and Curator of Ornithology for six months, this term ex- 
piring July 31st. Both our publications and our exhibition cases 
will suffer from the loss, and it will be difficult to fill the place of 
so active and successful a worker. Mr. L. G. Blackman, who has 
for years been a most acceptable librarian and general assistant, 
listened to the lure of his favorite occupation of teaching and left 
us to become head master of the recently founded Aliiolani College 
in this city. The Museum has lost strength in his departure. 
Mr. Hugh F. Sturtevant, who has for several summer vacations 
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