Director’s Report for 1914 
LIBRARY 
NEW YOrR«K 
BOTANICAL 
DuRING the year 1914 the number of visitors to the Museum has 
been greater than ever before, and, what is more important, we 
have had many more students devoted to continuous work in our 
Library and Laboratory; some studying weeks at a time, and it 
is probable that all found it worth their while. Mr. Mesterhazy 
of Moskau made with remarkable speed and accuracy colored 
drawings of our fruit casts and of many of our ethnological 
specimens. Dr. F. von Luschan and Mrs. Emma von Luschan 
spent a month at the Museum busily engaged in measuring our 
collection of Hawaiian crania and skeletons, and also making 
measurements and casts from life. This study proved so inter- 
esting that these distinguished anthropologists hope to return to 
these islands to extend their investigations. The result obtained 
from the Museum collections we hope to publish, fully illus- 
trated, in our Memoirs. The necessary apparatus for the photo- 
graphic illustration of crania could not be found in the United 
States and has been ordered from Munich, although its arrival 
has been delayed by the war in Europe; from the same prob- 
able cause anthropometrical instruments ordered from Ztirich 
are long overdue. 
The number of students in the Library emphasizes the need 
for better library accommodations. ‘The repairs made to the new 
concrete Laboratory with the addition of a thick coat of paint 
seems to have stopped the leakage all over the building, and 
where paint has been applied to the inner walls as well, the result 
is most satisfactory. [43] (3) 
GARDEN, 
