IO Director's Annual Report. 
A description of the new building of the Academy in Golden Gate 
Park, written by the Director, Dr. B. W. Evermann, then absent 
in the East, was read by Dr. Roy F. Dickerson. A little later 
in the day we inspected the single section of this one-storied 
building which was nearly ready for occupancy. At1 p.m. we 
lunched in Golden Gate Park as guests of the City, and at two 
we visited the Museum of Anthropology of the University of 
Calfornia, at present in one of the buildings of the Affiliated 
Colleges near the park. This contains the extensive collections 
purchased by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst at a cost of over a million dollars, 
and presented to the University, which has at present no suitable 
building for its proper exhibition. In this vast archaeological 
collection are a few good specimens from Hawaii and other Pacific 
Ocean groups. Inthe lecture room we were comfortably seated, 
and there listened to a number of papers on museum subjects, 
among them an interesting one on an inexpensive temporary 
museum equipment, illustrated by the ingenious methods put in 
practice by Mr. E. W. Gifford in housing a vast collection for a 
few hundred dollars. Discussion also arose on the union of science 
and art in museums, and I was moved to make a rather lengthy 
address on the need of art in scientificmuseums. It was not until 
I saw the many yards of stenographic report writhing on the floor 
that I was aware of the time I had occupied, but judging by the 
frequent applause, it was not tedious to my audience. 
Later in the afternoon we visited the Memorial Museum in 
the Park, and in that rather crowded building we enjoyed the 
description by Prof. George Barron of the ‘‘Pioneer Boom’’. In 
the evening at the San Francisco Institution of Art, Mr. Oliver 
P. Farrington gave the presidential address on ‘‘The Rise of 
Natural History Museums’’, and the Secretary, Mr. Paul M. Rea, 
spoke on ‘‘America’s Oldest Museum’’, but I was too weary with 
the day’s work to attend this interesting meeting. 
On Wednesday, July 7, we met at 8:45 a. m. at the Bureau of 
Mining to take the Key Route to Oakland, and at ten we were at 
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