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station already established are there such ideal conditions for 
study, and should it be announced that we desired a marine zoolo- 
gist many would be the applicants for such a chance for original 
investigation. ‘To those who rate highly the discovery of new 
species our reefs offer a rich field, for in the collections made in 
three days by the members of the present staff on this island 
and on Molokai, none of them specialists in marine zoology, Dr. 
Vaughn, of the United States National Museum, found a dozen 
new species, some of great interest. Surely this mine is not yet 
worked out; it is easily accessible and vastly attractive. But to 
those who desire to know more of the structure and life history of 
the reef-dwellers a more convenient place for study can hardly be 
desired than here found on our reefs. 
In the deed which established the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 
as an independent institution, definite reference was made by the 
founder to the possible establishment, under the auspices of this 
museum, of a Marine Aquarium for the study of life on our reefs. 
and the public exhibition of their most interesting inhabitants in a 
living condition. While the funds are not at hand for such an 
establishment as should be on this island, much can be done with 
the conveniences of the new laboratory to collect and study the 
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smaller ‘‘Harvest of the Sea,’’ and it is hoped that another year 
may see the department of Marine Zoology inaugurated. 
It would be pleasant to anticipate some of the many advan- 
tages to accrue from the possession of suitable work- and store- 
rooms, but it is perhaps wiser to wait until we move into and try 
our new domain, and are able to install the apparatus brought 
from Berlin fourteen years ago. After such an interval we can 
surely wait another twelvemonth. 
From the things that may be in the future we turn to some of 
those in hand, and it is pleasant to call attention to the gift by the 
Hon. Wm. R. Castle of perhaps the most valuable single collection 
we have received by gift. I had been in correspondence with one 
of the Australian pioneers, Mr. J. F. Connelly, a surveyor who. 
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