Director’s Annual Report. 9 
“The Director started an exchange with the Australian Botanic 
Garden in Sydney last year, and we have already exchanged 300 
specimens. It is hoped that visits may be made to the other 
islands of this group, if for no other purpose than to keep up this 
valuable exchange. It would also be of advantage to extend 
these exchanges. 
“‘ Accessions during the year.—The following gentlemen have 
added specimens to the Museum: Dr. W. T. Brigham, 30 speci- 
mens, Maui; Dr. C. M. Cooke, 1 specimen, Oahu: Albert F. Judd 
Esq., 3 specimens, Hawaii; Rev. J. M. Lydgate, 78 specimens, 
Kauai; Mr. J. F G. Stokes, 126 specimens, Molokai; Mr: €: B: 
Thompson, 5 specimens, Oahu; Mr. J. W. Thompson, 2 speci- 
mens, Oahu, 1 specimen, Molokai; Dr. E. V. Wilcox, 2 speci- 
mens, Oahu.’’ 
Mr. J. W. Thompson has continued his good work in making 
casts of the fish found in the Honolulu waters, and we have now 
over three hundred accurately colored casts. As may be supposed, 
the new fish are less and less frequent, and it will soon be neces- 
sary for our artist to visit the other islands of the group to obtain 
those specimens of the Hawaiian fish fauna that are peculiar to 
each of the islands. 
The attendance of visitors during the year is shown in the 
table: there is a total attendance of visitors exceeding that of 1908 
by 1940. When we examine the table by nationalities we find an 
‘increase of white visitors of 251, and of Japanese of 2133, the 
latter due to the presence of a training ship of that nation, when 
it seemed that nearly all both officers and men came to the Muse- 
um; of Hawaiians 246 less than the previous year.* The Trus- 
tees found it necessary to forbid the admission of children under 
five years of age, as women brought many babes in the arms and 
children too young to go alone, and spent the day, until the 

*The small attendance during February was due to closing the Museum 
on account of oiling the roads in the yard; only those with permits from the 
office were admitted. 
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