Director’s Report for 1916 
In beginning his Report of the activities of this Museum for 
the year 1916 the Director, with no little pleasure, notes an event 
which was, he believes, intended to have taken place in the previous 
year asa recognition of the twenty-fifth year of the Museum’s con- 
crete existence, 1890-1915. Various accidents delayed the kind 
intention and hence its place in the present Report. The event is 
explained in the following letter from the Trustees’ Records: 
‘On motion of Mr. W. O. Smith, it was unanimously resolved 
that the offer to the Museum by the persons who are at present 
Trustees, of the portrait in oils of Dr. William T. Brigham by 
Wilton Lockwood, be accepted and that the Secretary be instructed 
to send to the donors the letter of which the following is a copy: 
‘“*The Bernice P. Bishop Museum accepts the gift made to 
it by you of the portrait of Dr. Brigham painted by the late Wilton 
Lockwood, and will be pleased to give it a place in the Picture 
Gallery of the Museum. 
‘““Dr. Brigham, as the first Curator and Director of the Museum, 
is one who might be said to have been present at its birth, who had 
performed a very large share of the work of directing its course 
from the stage when it was the treasure house of two private col- 
lections of ancient Hawaiian handicraft to the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum of today. Dr. Brigham and his work can never be dis- 
sociated from the Museum, its humble beginnings, its early diffi- 
culties and struggles, its progress and development, and the work 
it has already accomplished in the cause of science. 
‘ “By this action of the Trustees a work of Art has been added 
to the rich collections which are stored in the Museum, and so long 
as the impressive monument of love known as the Bernice P. 
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