Director s Annual Report. n 



Mr. J. K. Farley of Koloa who provided me with a conveyance 

 and accompanied me to the beginning of the steeper ascent. In 

 Koloa I visited the sand dunes at Makahuena Point to look for 

 fossil shells, with the result reported by that department. 



"While on Kauai the collections of the following residents 

 were examined and interesting specimens photographed or bor- 

 rowed : Mrs. V. Knudsen, Mr. E. Knudsen, Mr. Albert Wilcox 

 and the Misses Wilcox, the latter the owners of the Kahlbaum 

 collection. The cast of the large stone covered with petroglyphs 



Fig. 5. Fijian clttr given by sir evekard im thurn. 



at Miss M. Damon's country place at Moanalua Valley was com- 

 pleted and placed in Hawaiian Hall." The renewal of consider- 

 able flooring in the Picture Gallery and elsewhere was rendered 

 necessary by the ravages of termites. 



Mr. Charles X. Forbes, Curator of Botany, reports: "All ma- 

 terial received prior to May, 191 2, has been classified, mounted and 

 incorporated into the Herbarium ; while most material received 

 since that date has been classified. A large amount of time has 

 been spent in attempting to exterminate the various insect pests 

 which attack the specimens. During the year the whole Herba- 

 rium has been fumigated, once with carbon disulphide and twice 

 with hydrocyanic acid gas, the last being necessary to check an 

 invasion of cigar beetles which did a large amount of damage 

 during my absence on Molokai. In the last lew months work was 



started in poisoning all the specimens with corrosive sublimate. 



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