6 Director's Report for roré. 
RELICS. 
During the year two royal standards were received, for each of which 
was claimed the distinction of being the royal standard lowered at the over- 
throw of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. One was given by Mr. A. A. Brown 
of San Francisco, and the other by Mr. George E. Smithies of Honolulu. 
The flags are of similar design but differ in other respects. In the hope of 
establishing the identity of this historical specimen, inquiries have been 
made among persons who witnessed the revolution, but with no definite 
results. 
Mr. Smithies also presented, in the name of his wife, many other 
relics including the sword of his late Majesty Kalakaua. Mrs. Smithies was 
the daughter of the late Colonel Samuel Nowlein, who commanded the 
body guard of the Queen, at the time of her deposal. 
Acknowledgments of gifts have been sent to Mesdames C. M. Cooke 
and C. N. Forbes; Messrs. L. J. Bouge, A. A. Brown, Bruce Cartwright, Jr., 
C. Montague Cooke, Jr., C..M. Cooke III, MH. EF. Cooper, S: B: Dole) Ae a: 
Judd, James Munro, R. Nui, G) W. Paty, A-~ Petty, Je Wo Pirates 
Roberts, W. S. Rycroft and G. E. Smithies; the Hawaiian Evangelical 
Association and the Twenty-fifth Infantry, U. S$. A. 
While Prof. J. Macmillan Brown, vice-dean of the University of New 
Zealand, visited the Hawaiian Islands, to continue his Polynesian researches, 
it became the good fortune of the curator of ethnology to conduct the noted 
anthropologist to various parts of the island of Oahu. 
PULMONATA. 
Dr. C. Montague Cooke, Curator of Pulmonata, reports for his 
department as follows: 
During the past year, fewer shells have been added to the collection than 
in any year since the curator has been employed by the Museum. The reason 
for this is that a litthe more than half of the year was spent in preparation 
of a manuscript dealing with the Hawaiian Pupillidae. The whole of the 
Museum collection of our species belonging to this family (catalogued up 
to December 31, 1917) has now been classified and arranged. A _ large 
number of new species was found in the collection, as about two-thirds of 
the species and varieties dealt with are new. ‘The manuscript has been 
slightly enlarged by Dr. Pilsbury and will appear shortly in the Manual 
of Conchology. 
Five thousand one hundred and ninety-eight (5198) specimens were 
catalogued during the year. ‘These specimens are distributed in five hundred 
and sixty-seven (567) catalogue numbers. Specimens have been received 
from the following: Mrs. G. W. Bryan, Miss M. Burbank, Miss M. Clough, 
Messrs. J. S. Emerson, C. F. Mant, A. Gouveia, J. C. Bridwell and E. R. 
Davis. 
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