lo Director' s Ann^ial Report. 



A description of the new building of the Academy in Golden Gate 

 Park, written by the Director, Ur. B. W. Evermann, then absent 

 in the East, was read by Dr. Roy F. Dickerson. A little later 

 in the day w^e inspected the single section of this one-storied 

 building which was nearly ready for occupancy. At i p.m. we 

 lunched in Golden Gate Park as guests of the City, and at two 

 we visited the Museum of Anthropology of the University of 

 Calfornia, at present in one of the buildings of the Affiliated 

 Colleges near the park. This contains the extensive collections 

 purchased b}^ Mrs. Phoebe Hearst at a cost of over a million dollars, 

 and presented to the University, which has at present no suitable 

 building for its proper exhibition. In this vast archaeological 

 collection are a few good specimens from Hawaii and other Pacific 

 Ocean groups. In the lecture room we were comfortabl}' seated, 

 and there listened to a number of papers on museum subjects, 

 among them an interesting one on an inexpensive temporary 

 museum equipment, illustrated by the ingenious methods put in 

 practice by Mr. E. W. Gifford in housing a vast collection for a 

 few hundred dollars. Discussion also arose on the union of science 

 and art in museums, and I was moved to make a rather lengthy 

 address on the need of art in scientific museums. It was not until 

 I saw the many yards of stenographic report writhing on the floor 

 that I was aware of the time I had occupied, but judging by the 

 frequent applause, it was not tedious to my audience. 



I^ater in the afternoon we visited the Memorial Museum in 

 the Park, and in that rather crowded building we enjoyed the 

 description by Prof. George Barron of the "Pioneer Boom". In 

 the evening at the San Francisco Institution of Art, Mr. Oliver 

 P. Farrington gave the presidential address on "The Rise of 

 Natural History Museums", and the Secretary, Mr. Paul M. Rea, 

 spoke on "America's Oldest Museum", but I was too weary with 

 the day's work to attend this interesting meeting. 



On Wednesday, July 7, we met at 8:45 ^- "i- ^t the Bureau of 



Mining to take the Kev Route to Oakland, and at ten we were at 



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