4 Director's Annual Report. 
The Entomological Room has been fitted with suitable furni- 
ture and racks for steel cases. In the Publication Room the ad- 
ditional cases authorized will have been installed before this 
report is issued. For Dr. Cooke’s room fine new cases have been 
made in the Museum for the storage of shells. In the Casting 
Room suitable means have been provided for the speedy drying 
of moulds and casts. 
In Hawaiian Hall the relics of the chiefs have been removed 
to the upper gallery, and the botanical collections for exhibition 
will be placed in the same gallery as soon as the bird skins now 
there can be transferred to the steel cases now ez route from New 
York. After this the gallery will be open to the public. In it 
have been placed temporarily the Connelly collection of Australian 
specimens, and the Etheridge collection of specimens mainly 
from the New Hebrides. Here also are the loan collections of 
Hawaiian origin. 
The new edition of the portion of the Museum handbook re- 
lating to Hawaiian Hall is nearly complete and will probably be 
issued by the time the upper gallery is open to visitors. A sepa- 
rate catalogue of the fish casts is in preparation to be issued as 
soon as the new species have been determined by the distinguished 
authority to whom they have been referred. ‘This will be a notable 
publication, as our collection of casts and notes on the fish from 
which these have been made embraces essentially all the import- 
ant food fish of the group. It is also proposed to have a separate 
section of the handbook for the volcanic specimens, and for the 
Polynesian and Melanesian collections when the hall for the latter 
is built. This much toexplain the form of publication: the former 
handbook covered the entire collection. 
Our publications have been limited to the Dire¢tor’s Report 
for 1913 in the Occasional Papers. No Memoirs have been issued, 
but much work has been done on certain papers for future publi- 
cation. Our exchange list has increased during the year as will 
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