4 Director's Report for 1916. 
casts. As no provision was made for the protection of fruit casts 
from being handled by the public, this portion of the exhibit was 
withdrawn. For the fish section, however, casts of thirty of the 
largest edible fishes, especially of those somewhat neglected by the 
fish-eating public, were selected and exhibited in the rotunda of the 
Aquarium, where they showed to far better advantage than in the 
Museum cases. As the Aquarium (which was made part of the 
Fair) was able to exhibit only the smaller species in its tanks, the 
combination with the Museum contribution made a very compre- 
hensive exhibit. 
Attention is drawn to twelve enlarged photographs of the fire- 
pit of Kilauea Voleano which have been mounted and displayed 
in Hawaiian Hall, in front of the model of the Voleano. The plates 
were selected by Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Director of the Voleano Observa- 
tory, to illustrate the successive changes in the fire-pit during a 
period of a year and a half. Their educational value has been 
further enhanced by the descriptions written by Dr. Jaggar. 
During the latter part of the year, the unusually severe wind 
storm, which did much damage in Honolulu, made itself felt on the 
Museum buildings. The stone and concrete portions of the struc- 
ture were unaffected, but the skylight of the photographic studio was 
broken in, and the crestings of the exhibition building carried off. 
A very satisfactory evidence of the progress of the Museum in 
the estimation of Hawaiian people, was given during the year when 
the bones of two of their kings were placed in the Museum in order 
that the remarkable workmanship of the caskets might be studied 
to advantage. (See p. 5 and Pl. I.) Remains of Hawaiian kings 
having always been regarded with the greatest veneration by their 
subjects (a veneration that very properly continues among Hawai- 
ians living today), the recognition of the purposes of the Bishop 
Museum, and the confidence shown by this action, is not only a 
matter of gratification to the institution, but indicates an intellectual 
keenness and an appreciation of scientific knowledge on the part of 
the Hawaiian people not equalled so far by any other race. 
= 1 PEIN@OLOGN. 
Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, the Curator of Polynesian Ethnology, 
reports: 
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