Director's Report for 1917. 5 
may have different plans for the needed assistants, and his hand 
should be free. 
The Staff at the end of 1917 was as follows: 
William T. Brigham, Sc.D. (Columbia) - - Director 
William H. Dall, Ph.D. - Honorary Curator of Mollusca 
John F. G. Stokes - Curator of Polynesian Ethnology 
C. Montague Cooke, Ph.D. ( Yale) - Curator of Pulmonata 
Charles N. Forbes - - - Curator of Botany 
Otto H. Swezey - - Honorary Curator of Entomology 
John W. Thompson - - - Artist and Modeler 
Miss Elizabeth B. Higgins - - - Librarian 
John J. Greene - - - - - - Printer 
M. L,. Horace Reynolds - - - Cabinet Maker 
Mrs. Helen M. Helvie - Superintendent of Exhibitions 
John Lung Chung, Thomas Keolanui and John Pen- 
chula- - . . - - - - - Janitors 
To all of these the Director tenders his heartfelt thanks for 
most ready and unfailing assistance and cooperation which has 
made his labor pleasant among many difficulties and disappoint- 
ments, and without which the Museum could not have held its 
creditable position. 
During the year Hon. Samuel M. Damon and Alfred W. Carter 
have resigned from the Board of Trustees and Mr. William William- 
son and Mr. Richard H. Trent have been appointed in their place. 
Ethnology.—Mr. Stokes reports as follows: 
‘“ACCESSIONS.—These are listed in the following pages. The 
number and total value show a great falling off from the average 
of the few preceding years, which can be explained, though only 
partly, by the Curator’s activity in other branches of Museum 
work. Some of the gifts and loans, however, are worthy of especial 
notice. Among the former may be mentioned the body part of a 
canoe dug up ina peat bog on Washington Island and presented 
by the Greig brothers, and two wooden idols given by the Pacific 
Mill Co. through the kindness of Mr. J. W. Waldron. 
‘Of the loans there should be mentioned a large general collec- 
tion from Mr. A. L. C. Atkinson, which represented well the tools 
of the Hawaiians; it also included a drum, and a damaged speci- 
men of the very rare Necker Island images. Mrs. E. K. Mehrten 
[251] 
