Director's Annual Report. 25 
Ethnology. I quote from the report to me of Mr. J. F. G. 
Stokes, the Curator: 
‘“The number of specimens received during the year is satis- 
factory and well up to the average, but not as large as in the 
previous year. 
“Through an anonymous friend of Mr. Henry Holmes the 
Museum has been presented with the Helms collections of ethno- 
logical and entomological material. The former portion, which 
concerns my department, consists of a remarkably fine series of 
Australian and Melanesian specimens, including a few from Micro- 
nesia and Polynesia. The main portion of the ethnological 
collection was gathered by Dr. Richard Helms in western and 
south Australia where he went as the naturalist of the Elder 
Exploring Expedition in 1892. It was described and illustrated 
in Dr. Helms’ report on the anthropology of the expedition, in the 
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, and isa 
valuable acquisition on this account. The majority of the other 
specimens are well authenticated and bear a locality label or an 
inscription naming the sources from which Dr. Helms received 
them. It isa good collection, and has been made with judgment, 
and the Museum is very grateful to Mr. Holmes’ anonymous friend. 
“Other friends, to the number of fifteen, gave tangible evi- 
dence of their interest, as may be seen in the lists appended. As 
before, when any of the curators have been in the field, they have 
gathered in all that they could that was of interest to the Museum, 
and we have all helped each other’s department in this way. 
The specimens received during the year have been fairly numer- 
ous, but do not deserve special mention. No large collections 
have been purchased during the year. An average number of 
commoner specimens have been bought at the door, but the curio 
stores have not offered anything worth securing. 
‘‘Mr. Henriques has added forty-three specimens to his collec- 
tion already on loan, the most important of which is the small 
breadfruit-wood surf board, found in the cave at Hookena with 
the sled described last year. The coconut scraper mentioned in 
the list was made from a large cone shell, and is the first Hawaiian 
specimen of the kind to be reported. 
‘“Two trips were made in the field, and though not necessarily 
in connection with my department the trips yielded fruit in the 
[141] 
