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of the present year, but found time to study the field relations 
of an interesting skeleton discovered at Kilauea. During the 
period April to July a systematic study of the ruined asylum 
(“City of Refuge’) at Honaunau was made with a view to pro- 
curing the necessary data for writing the history of this ancient 
asylum and for determining the form of the original structure. 
The preparation for publication of a report on Honaunau was 
postponed in order to prepare plans and descriptions of various 
Hawaiian temple sites for incorporation in Dr. Brigham’s forth- 
coming work on Hawaiian worship. 
The time of the Curator of Pulmonata, C. Montague Cooke, 
Jr., has been chiefly given to cataloguing the unusually large col- 
lections recently received. (See page 120.) 
During the year a conchological survey was made of parts of 
the island of Molokai and three weeks were spent on a profitable 
collecting trip above the valley of Waimea on the island of Kauai. 
To aid in cataloguing collections, Mr. A. Gouveia was em- 
ployed by the Curator for the last three months of the year. To 
continue this work it is proposed to add to the staff a trained 
assistant in Malacology. 
The Curator of Botany, Charles N. Forbes, spent the first 
half of the year on routine herbarium work and the preparation 
of three papers on New Hawaiian plants. Twelve short field 
trips were made to places on the island of Oahu. In July a 
botanical survey of the island of Maui was begun, and carried 
on with few interruptions to the end of the year. 
The Honorary Curator of Entomology, Otto H. Swezey, has 
given generously of his time in collecting and labeling insect 
material and formulating plans for the guidance of the Acting 
Director. He has been ably assisted by Edwin H. Bryan. 
The museum’s Artist and Modeler, John W. Thompson, pre- 
pared during the year 64 casts for the exhibition halls; 34 fish, 
17 fruit, 13 archaeological and 7 miscellaneous. Fish for model- 
ing were obtained and presented to the Museum by John W. 
Thompson and C. M. Cooke III., and thirteen varieties of Ha- 
Waiian taro were presented by Gerrit P. Wilder. Among the 
specimens presented by Mr. Thompson and of which painted 
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