Director 's Annual Report. g 



' ' The Director started an exchange with the Australian Botanic 

 Garden in Sydney last year, and we have already exchanged 300 

 specimens. It is hoped that visits may be made to the other 

 islands of this group, if for no other purpose than to keep up this 

 valuable exchange. It would also be of advantage to extend 

 these exchanges. 



''Accessions during the year. — The following gentlemen have 

 added specimens to the Museum: Dr. W. T. Brigham, 30 speci- 

 mens, Maui ; Dr. C. M. Cooke, 1 specimen, Oahu ; Albert F. Judd 

 Esq., 3 specimens, Hawaii; Rev. J. M. Lydgate, 78 specimens, 

 Kauai; Mr. J. F G. Stokes, 126 specimens, Molokai ; Mr. C. B. 

 Thompson, 5 specimens, Oahu; Mr. J. W. Thompson, 2 speci- 

 mens, Oahu, 1 specimen, Molokai; Dr. E. 'V. Wilcox, 2 speci- 

 mens, Oahu." 



Mr. J. W. Thompson has continued his good work in making 

 casts of the fish found in the Honolulu waters, and we have now 

 over three hundred accurately colored casts. As may be supposed, 

 the new fish are less and less frequent, and it will soon be neces- 

 sary for our artist to visit the other islands of the group to obtain 

 those specimens of the Hawaiian fish fauna that are peculiar to 

 each of the islands. 



The attendance of visitors during the year is shown in the 

 table ; there is a total attendance of visitors exceeding that of 1908 

 by 1940. When we examine the table by nationalities we find an 

 increase of white visitors of 251, and of Japanese of 2133, the 

 latter due to the presence of a training ship of that nation, when 

 it seemed that nearly all both officers and men came to the Muse- 

 um ; of Hawaiians 246 less than the previous year.* The Trus- 

 tees found it necessary to forbid the admission of children under 

 five years of age, as women brought many babes in the arms and 

 children too young to go alone, and spent the day, until the 



*The small attendance during February was due to closing the Museum 

 on account of oiling the roads in the yard ; only those with permits from the 

 office were admitted. 



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