Director's Annual Report. aX 
‘The following list shows the number of specimens received 
during the year. All except duplicates have been incorporated in 
the collection. 
Rey. J: M. Lydgate, SALA iets ooo oevattay Vee atle ee nopslsfaits eieterats.s feces. sys aisvale silsl ails: s 2\ele 2 
nubs, (S, (Cs Mili sd UEbieh cou canodoOnmolabomooc: Doc AnSOC oon oomUer Bon 117 
Mr. G. C. Munro, Maui.-.-.---..202- cecces secs ce eres cece e cece ee cece 40 
Dr. C; M. Cooke, Jr., Molokai ---- -.-------2-- 000 eee cece eens cece cee 2 
Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., Oahu .--. +--+. eee ee eee ee eee cece ee eee e ee eee 3 
Mr. J. F. G. Stokes, Oahut -- +. 0 eee eee ee eee ee cece ee eee eee eee eee 5 
Dr. Wm. T. Brigham, Oahu. --..---------- eee eee cece cece cee wee 2 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd (of Cincinnati, Ohio), Hawaii --------+---2. cece eee I 
CWruTarOLnSicollection) Oalaee nie cieclas + = siete =e = -leie «1 wio)a\=le einle olel~iel|=) © alele £514] 
Ciimitor S eollleearin. IWiillelerigscos coccde odorcy adsoue 4b oGnoS Ss ceseo Soones 329 
Curator’s collection, Hawaii-- ~~~. 22.2 025.5 cece. cases noes cee cee 2100 
Total number of specimens. -.---- +--+. eee ee cece eee eee cece eens 2979 
Pulmonata. From the report of Dr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., I quote: 
‘‘For the year 1915 your Curator can report further progress. 
Many of the ‘lots’ of fossil shells have been catalogued and not as 
many new ‘lots’ have been received. In getting this material sorted 
and catalogued the Curator has been forced, by lack of time, to place 
only a small portion of each of the ‘lots’ in the collection. In some 
of the deposits the shells are so thickly distributed in the earth that 
as many as eight hundred whole specimens have been found to be 
the average in a cubic inch of soil. What has remained (and by 
far the larger portion of the ‘lots’) is carefully labeled as to date, 
locality, and what catalogue numbers have been entered against 
the ‘lot’. It is then stored in the laboratory. Additional speci- 
mens may be sorted out at some future date if needed for further 
study. Undoubtedly from six months toa year’s time might be 
spent in completely sorting and cataloguing all specimens in these 
fossil ‘lots’, but most of this time could be spent to more advan- 
tage in other ways. 
‘‘Forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (41,888) 
specimens were catalogued during the year, being distributed over 
2,518 catalogue numbers. The Curator collected 33,807 speci- 
mens. Mr. Forbes collected 3,197, and the remainder, 4,884, were 
gifts from friends of the Museum. Twenty-five thousand one 
hundred and twelve (25,112), of the specimens might properly be 
termed fossils. [147] 
