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antiquities in the collection, for illustration in my proposed history, 
and I of course went out to Kalihi to see how it would be possible 
to arrange the specimens in the two very moderate sized rooms at 
my disposal before agreeing to Mr. Bishop’s proposal: it was a 
rather uninteresting interruption to my historical studies, and 
besides, except for the cases in the Kahili Room, there were neither 
cases nor shelves, nor even tables for the exhibition or even stor- 
age of the very miscellaneous collection. The interior walls were 
all white plaster, and the koa stairway, very ugly architecturally, 
looked too bright against the plaster walls. Mr. Bishop did not 
turn the Museum over to the Trustees untilit had gathered within 
its walls all that he had in the way of Hawaiian relics. 
I had at first some difficulty in getting cheap redwood cases 
with common glass of very poor quality in which to place the more 
delicate specimens, but I felt that there was the foundation for a 
good ethnological museum if it could be properly housed and dis- 
played, with such additions as were needed to fill /acunz, and I 
undertook the not very interesting task. If it had not been for the 
full note books I had made in my previous visit to these islands in 
1864-65, I could have done little in cataloguing the heterogeneous 
mass spread out on the temporary board tables; but there came 
another help in the acquisition of the Government Museum collec- 
tions which contained many much needed specimens, although 
many were decayed and insect eaten owing to neglect or ignorance 
of museum methods. 
I have mentioned that when I first heard of Mr. Bishop’s pro- 
posed museum I had suggested the incorporation of this Govern- 
ment collection, but for some time there was considerable opposition 
on the part of the Government rather than on Mr. Bishop’s part, 
when a chance remark of the Attorney-General, that he needed 
more room and that the visitors to the Museum disturbed his 
department, gave me the hint and I urged him to use all his great 
influence to secure the transfer of the collections to the new Kalihi 
building and thus putting at the disposal of the law department 
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