Director' s Annual Report. 7 



"The following specimens have been added to the Herbarium 

 during 1914: 



Miss J. E. Tilden, Pacific islands plants (by purchase) 700 



Mr. G. C. Munro, Lanai 100 



Mr. C. K. McClelland, U. vS. Experiment vStation 12 



Mr. A. De Witt Alexander i 



Mrs. C. M. Cooke, Set of Baldwin's Hawaiian ferns 49 



Curator's collections on Oahu 2S7 



Total additions 1 150 



Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., Ctirator of Pulmonata, reports as follows: 



"For the 3'ear 1914 your Curator can report progress. This 

 has been an exceedingl}^ profitable and busy year, and more speci- 

 mens have been catalogued than in any previous year. 



"Sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifteen (68,915) 

 specimens were catalogued, distributed over two thousand nine 

 hundred and ninety-four (2994) catalogue numbers. There are 

 at present in the Museum five col lecftions (acquired either by gift 

 or purchase) which are uncatalogued containing between fifty and 

 seventy-five thotxsand shells belonging for the greater part to the 

 genera Achatinclla and A^nastra. 



"Two trips to Molokai and one to Kauai were taken during 

 the year and a great deal of vahiable material was collected. On 

 both of these islands particular attention was paid to fossil beds. 

 Eight new beds were discovered on Kauai, two of which were in 

 districts from which no material had previously been reported. 

 A portion of the large collecftions of fossils made by Mr. Stokes at 

 Koloa, Kaitai, and on Niihau were catalogued during the year. 

 The fossils from Niihait were especially interesting and show a 

 very close relationship to those on Kauai. The fossils collected 

 on Kahoolawe by Dr. Pilsbry, Messrs. Stokes and Forbes and your 

 Ctirator were also catalogued, and a number of new species found 

 among them, especially in the genus Lcptachatina. There are in 

 the Museum at present between twenty and thirty lots of material, 



from as manv different fossil beds, which are uncatalogued. Some 



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