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the needed adjoining room. I was successful, and was superin- 
tending the packing of the specimens for removal when Captain 
Mist, secretary in the Foreign Office, came hurriedly in and told 
me that the ‘‘Charleston’’ was signalled with her flag at half-mast, 
and as Kalakaua was returning on her it was probable that he 
was dead. Iat once went out and got all the help I could, engaged 
all the express carts to bring me packing cases, and before the end 
of that eventful day the whole collection was dumped on the floors 
of the new museum. A change of government might keep the 
museum in its old place for the present, and I would take no 
chances. 
In those early days the interest of Mr. Bishop centred in the 
preservation and exhibition of the relics of Mrs. Bishop, and it 
was some time before I thought best to broach my plan for a 
general Polynesian museum. At first he did not take kindly to it, 
but at last consented to build Polynesian Hall, although he finally 
left the islands before the cases were placed in this first addition 
to the original edifice. Inthe meantime he had transferred me 
together with the building and its collections to a Board of Trustees, 
and I, finding that Dr. Alexander had plans for writing a more 
extensive history of the Hawaiian Islands than he had attempted 
in his brief history of these islands already published, withdrew 
in favor of one so much more competent, and devoted my time 
entirely to the installation of the Polynesian exhibits in the new 
hall and in the preparation of plans for a more extensive Hawaiian 
Hall, even then needed. 
Beyond this I need not follow the history, but I must mention 
the last connection he had with this Museum when he had passed 
his ninety-third birthday. On April 14, 1915, I had taken a large 
photograph of Hawaiian Hall interior to send to him, and this he 
had framed, and he expressed his pleasure to me in the last note I 
had from his pen. In May, my secretary, Mr. Dean H. Lake, 
called on him at his residence in Berkeley, and Mr. Bishop took 
down the picture and asked Mr. Lake a number of questions as to 
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