Director's Report for 10109. 17 
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Hawaii has come through a gift of a building to the College of 
Hawaii from the C. M. Cooke estate, and an arrangement with 
the College whereby the Museum becomes the depository of 
working and reference collections and a publication medium for 
students. Close cooperation is effected by combining the duties 
of the Director of the Marine Laboratory and the Curator of 
Marine Zoology in the Museum. 
Exuispition HAs 
A museum is an educational institution which furnishes in- 
struction by means of suitably labeled exhibits. The quality of 
the instruction offered is measured by the skill displayed in the 
arrangement of exhibits and in the wording of explanatory labels, 
rather than by the kind of material displayed. With this idea in 
mind the exhibition halls of the Museum should be given thought- 
ful consideration. Material not suitable for exhibition should be 
stored, and a systematic arrangement devised for that which re- 
mains in the exhibition halls. A complete re-labeling is also de- 
sirable. 
The Museum is visited by many tourists but residents of 
Hawaii constitute a much larger group. The use of the Museum 
by citizens of Honolulu is large in proportion to the population and 
the visits during the year by Hawaiians (3090), Chinese (2238), 
Japanese (3756), and Portuguese (1205), indicate the estimation 
in which the institution is held by those who wish to take advantage 
of the instruction it has to offer. To accommodate those who are 
unable to visit the Museum during the working hours of the week, 
the halls have been open to the public on Sundays from 2:00 to 
5:00 Pp. M. beginning September first. Mrs. Helvie reports that “the 
attendance on Sunday afternoons has been gratifyingly large”. It 
is a pleasure to note that forty-six school classes in charge of their 
teachers made special studies of the collections. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY 
During the year, the large collection of photographic nega- 
tives belonging to the Museum has been catalogued and made easy 
of access by preparing a file of prints. These valuable photographs 
are now available for use by members of the staff and by visiting 
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