Director's Annual Report. 7 



P. Cooke, are now in the Museum and will be described later. 

 Some other gifts have been received and are acknowledged in the 

 list of accessions given below. 



Department of Pulmonata. 



Dr. C. M. Cooke, the Curator of Pulmonata, has made very 

 extensive collections in his department and has spent much time 

 on the Ancey collection. He reports: "Number of specimens 

 collected or sent to the Museum for identification, 27,333. Cata- 

 logue numbers, 1347. The Thwing collection, numbering nearly 

 40,000, was purchased by the Trustees. It is hoped that the cata- 

 loguing of this magnificent collection will be finished during 1910. 



".Specimens have been received from Messrs. I. Spalding, 

 C. X. Forbes, A. F. Knudsen, H. Podmore, W. H. Rice Jr., 

 Judge C. S. Dole, A. F. Judd, C. H. Cook, E. Deverill, F. W. 

 Terry and Dr. H. E. Cramptou." 



Department of Botany. 



Mr. Charles X. Forbes has continued his good work in this 

 Department of which he has now been appointed Curator, and 

 this may be partly seen in his report. He also has an account of 

 a new Hawaiian plant. His report is as follows:- — "An excur- 

 sion for the purpose of collecting and studying the vegetation of 

 Kauai was made during the months of July, August and September. 

 Four bases were established as follows : Hanalei, from which the 

 region Kalalau and the power line trail was gone over: Lihue, 

 from which the surrounding region was slightly covered ; the 

 McBryde mountain house and Mr. Gay's mountain house. Side 

 trips were taken up Hauapepe and Olokele valleys. In covering 

 so large a region in so short a time hardly more than a superficial 

 survey could be made of any one place. About 500 different varie- 

 ties were collected, and a good preliminary knowledge of the 

 vegetation of the island was acquired A large part of the success 

 of the trip was due to the friendly interest shown by many of the 

 people of Kauai, and especial thanks are due to Rev. J. M. Lydgate, 



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