14 Director's Annual Report 
I need not extend my description of this great exhibition, for 
most of you have seen it. I again visited the Museum of Anthro- 
pology in the Affiliated Colleges, where Mr. E. W. Gifford spent 
much time in showing me the treasures in his charge, and on 
which he lectures Sunday afternoons. By his invitation I met, 
that evening at a dinner at the Faculty Club, Drs. Waterman and 
Sapir, and also an old friend of mine, Dr. Setchel, Professor of 
Botany in the University of California. 
I was greatly interested in the railroad up Tamalpais, a moun- 
tain that I had climbed fifty-one years ago. Few, alas, of the old 
redwoods remained, except in the wooded glen named in honor of 
my departed friend, John Muir. 
Just before leaving San Francisco, Dr. B. W. Evermann 
returned from the East, and renewed his promise to come to this 
Museum at the earliest possible date. 
Greatly refreshed by meeting many old and new friends and 
by the bracing coolness of the climate, I returned on the China, 
July 30th. 
NEW STEEL STORAGE CASES. 
When the Laboratory building was planned it was hoped that 
in addition to the fire-proof nature of the structure, cases could be 
found suitable for the protection of perishable specimens such as 
bird skins, kapa and mats, in this climate abounding in indefatig- 
able indigenous and imported insect pests, but for some time none 
were found quite satisfactory. For birds especially, of which the 
Museum has a large and rare collection of the native avifauna, 
and some good representative specimens from other parts of the 
Pacific and its shores, this protection was very necessary. ‘The 
Henshaw collection of Hawaiian birds is very fine, and many 
of the specimens collected for the Museum by A. Seale in the 
southeast Pacific and Solomon Islands are of value, and although 
the curatorship of ornithology has been vacant for some years the 
collection has been cared for, and this year steel cases have been 
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