4 Director's Report for 1917. 
issued in 1913. ‘Two of the above Trustees have resigned; three 
are dead. Of the Staff all survive, although Mr. Wansey has re- 
turned to his home in Australia. 
Before the establishment of the Museum Press our only audi- 
ence was the small company of visitors who found their way to the 
exhibition halls which were open at first only one day in the week. 
Our publications at once carried the Museum, as it were, over the 
world for our ever increasing list of exchanges now numbers 146, 
and it may be seen from the printed list how widely they are dis- 
tributed. Our Annual Reports help to bind together the director- 
ates of the various museums in a very agreeable system of mutual 
exchange of professional information, and in leaving this distin- 
guished and learned company I desire to acknowledge the number- 
less instances of assistance and information I have received from 
my confréres in many countries. If I have been able in some in- 
stance to be of use to my colleagues it has been but little in propor- 
tion to the greater knowledge and far more extensive collections 
of the older museums that I have laid under contribution always 
most kindly rendered. 
During the past year this Museum has lost from its staff a 
greater number than in any previous year. Y. En Tseu, our 
Chinese draughtsman, left us to continue his studies in the Univer- 
sity of Louisiana, and his skill is greatly missed. August Perry, 
assistant printer for some years, and J. C. Bridwell, temporary as- 
sistant in Entomology have both left the Museum; Miss M. Claire 
Steinbring and her successor as Library assistant, Miss Lucile 
Lucas, have both been called away from the Islands; Lieutenant 
Richard Ernest Lambert who so satisfactorily filled the position of 
Director’s assistant, has returned at the call of his Country to his 
former position in the Navy and has sailed as Paymaster on the 
Schurz. Of all these only Miss Lucas’s place has been filled. An 
assistant in the Printery is greatly needed with the work on the two 
volumes of Fornander papers to be printed. But the new Director 
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