Director's Report for 1917. 
IN presenting his last report of the activities of the Bishop 
Museum the present Director may avail himself of the last official 
opportunity of presenting his thanks to the Board of Trustees for 
allowing him, as a parting gift, a year’s vacation, and also the title 
' of Director Emeritus. Such courtesy makes easier the ending of 
twenty-eight years of work in this Museum. Sad feeling that 
is merely personal becomes infinitely small in presence of the 
world-wide sorrow often coming home to those less able to bear 
crosses. 
I do not propose here to review the work of those years so full 
of hope for ideals now ended; when the two small rooms originally 
allotted to the Museum have grown almost to the number desired, 
even longed for, both by Mr. Bishop and myself; I dismiss the 
growth of the body of the Museum as a matter in which I can have 
no part. 
The first official issue of the Museum Press was my Annual 
Report in 1898, one half of which I put in type before we had a 
printer, and it remained as I left it, when our printer put the finished 
report to press. At that time the Board of Trustees consisted of: 
Sanford B. Dole, LL.D. - - - - President 
William O. Smith - - - = Vice-President 
Rey. Charles M. Hyde, D.D. - - - Secretary 
Henry Holmes - - - - . Treasurer 
Samuel M. Damon, Joseph O. Carter, William F. Allen 
The Museum Staff was: 
William T. Brigham, A.M., A.A.S., etc. - - Director 
Acland Wansey - - - . - - Curator 
John J. Greene - - - - - - Printer 
PEt eN ce et tae ee - - - - -  Taxidermist 
This report has been long out of print, but the important parts 
of it were reprinted in the Report of a Journey Around the World 
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