Director's Report for igiS. 5 



"It is worth while noting the occasional advantage to the 

 Museum of helping outsiders when possible. Captain Fritz Hell- 

 hoff, of the vS. S. IvOngmoon and Mr. Max Freeh, first officer of the 

 S. S. Prinz Waldemar, both now in port, wished to have a con- 

 signment of bird of paradise skins inspected for condition before 

 shipment to China for sale. Compliance with their wishes led to 

 the presentation to the Museum by Mr. Freeh of necklaces of 

 beetles' prothoraces, elytra and femora from Kaiserin Augusta 

 River, New Guinea, specimens not before heard of. Shown in 

 Fig. 3. Promises were also made by the two officers to send 

 specimens to the Museum when they regained their freedom. 

 The bird of paradise skins were intended only for millinery pur- 

 poses, and were unsuitable for the Museum collections. 



"Messrs. A. F. Judd, J. A. Wilder, G. P. Cooke and C. M. 

 Cooke Jr., added many specimens from Molokai, among which 

 were three .shell spoons not previously reported. Fig. i. 



"Mr. J. K. Farley sent us a petroglyph which he had had cut 

 from the beach at Keoneloa, Kauai, with the permission of the 

 Koloa Sugar Company, on whose property the specimen was. 



"Among the other gifts might be mentioned two rare pounders 

 from Mr. H. Digby Sloggett, b. papa kui poi pohakii or stone platter 

 on which poi was pc^unded (unique so far), from Mr. A. Gross 

 (Fig. 8), and a ringed stone mortar from Mr. Robert S. Thurston 

 (Fig. 4). The gifts of other friends of the Museum appear in the 

 accompanying lists. It will be noticed that there is an increase in 

 the number of donors." 



The field work of the department has been not only interest- 

 ing but productive. The expedition to Kauai was the third in the 

 past six years with the object of photographing the interesting 

 petroglyphs on Keoneloa beach. The first two were comparative 

 failures for the sand which usually covers the cuttings which are 

 uncovered during a Kona storm, in both cases were mostly covered 

 by the time one could get word of the storm and arrive from Oahu 

 at the beach. In January of this year there was a long ^pell of 

 Koua weather and the sands left the petroglyphs uncovered for an 

 unusual time, .so that Mr. Stokes with Mr. Dean H. Lake and a 

 specially constructed .staging to place in the water where the camera 



could catch the bare ledge as the wave receded were able to secure 



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