4 Director's Annual Report. 
tors to the Library have had volumes placed at their disposal for 
research, transcription, or illustration copying. ‘Tracings of por- 
tions of maps or charts have been made for curators in a very 
convenient and time-saving way. 
In the Botanical department much work has been done and 
I quote from Mr. C. N. Forbes’ report to me: 
“Dr. Wn. T. BRIGHAM, Director of the Bishop Museum. 
“DEAR SrrR:—The bulk of the material received during the 
year has been poisoned, mounted, classified, and incorporated 
into the herbarium. Work has been continued in poisoning the 
mounted portion of the herbarium with corrosive sublimate. This 
work takes a great deal of time, with little to show for it; but it 
seems absolutely necessary not to neglect any possible means of 
combatting the invasions of our numerous insect pests. The 
Hawaiian section is practically finished. 
‘‘Most of the collecting this year was on the smaller islands, 
or over ground covered before; so the number of specimens ob- 
tained was not large, although nearly the same amount of time 
was spent in the field. During a portion of February and March 
I accompanied other members of the Museum staff on a trip to the 
islands of Molokini and Kahoolawe. Very few specimens were 
collected, but the trip was instructive in many ways. ‘The botani- 
cal results have already been reported on in Volume V, Number 3, 
of the Occasional Papers of this Museum. For courtesies ex- 
tended while on the island we are indebted to Mr. Eben P. Low, 
lessee of Kahoolawe; and also to Messrs. Arthur Waaland W. A. 
Gill of Lahaina for aid in obtaining a boat for the trip. 
‘‘On the return from this trip a week was spent at Lahaina, 
Maui, for the purpose of collecting on ridges not visited in rgrt. 
‘During the months of June and July an extended trip was 
made to the island of Lanai which was covered pretty thoroughly, 
practically every ridge and subridge being walked over at least 
once. ‘There are two rather extensive forest areas on this island 
with a diversified and interesting flora. A fairly complete set of 
