Director's Report for 1917. 



Ix presenting his last report of the activities of the Bishop 

 Museum the present Director may avail himself of the last official 

 opportunity of presenting his thanks to the Board of Trustees for 

 allowing him, as a parting gift, a year's vacation, and also the title 

 of Director Emeritus. vSuch courtesy makes easier the ending of 

 twenty-eight years of work in this Museum. Sad feeling that 

 is merely personal becomes infinitely small in presence of the 

 world-wide sorrow often coming home to those less able to bear 

 crosses. 



I do not propose here to review the work of those years so full 

 of hope for ideals now ended; when the two small rooms originally 

 allotted to the Museum have grown almost to the number desired, 

 even longed for, both b}' Mr. Bishop and myself; I dismiss the 

 growth of the body of the Museum as a matter in which I can have 

 no part. 



The first official issue of the Museum Press was my Annual 

 Report in 1898, one half of which I put in type before we had a 

 printer, and it remained as I left it, when our printer put the finished 

 report to press. At that time the Board of Trustees consisted of: 



Sanford B. Dole, LL.D. - - . . President 

 William O. Smith - . . . Vice-President 



Rev. Charles M. Hyde, D.D. - - - Secretary- 

 Henry Holmes . . - . . Treasurer 

 Samuel M. Damon, Joseph O. Carter, William F. Allen 



The Museum Staff was: 



William T. Brigham, A.M., A.A.S., etc. - - Director 

 Acland Wansej' ..-..- Curator 



John J. Greene Printer 



Taxidermist 



This report has been long out of print, but the important parts 

 of it were reprinted in the Report of a Journej- Around the World 



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