Report of the Director for 1922 



WORK OF THE STAFF 



The Director, Herbert E. Gregory, has given attention to the work of 

 field parties, to editorial supervision, and to plans for organization and de- 

 velopment. Brief trips were made to the islands of Lanai and Maui and 

 the Napali coast of Kauai was explored with a view to later study. The 

 month of January was spent on the Atlantic coast and in Canada in con- 

 ference with government officials and with scientists interested in Pacific 

 problems. Six weeks in August and September were given to geological 

 work in southern Utah ; and to fulfill obligations of the co-operative agree- 

 ment between the Museum and Yale University, the time from September 

 20th to the end of the year was devoted to classroom work at New Haven. 



The Director has continued his work as Chairman of the Committee 

 on Pacific Investigations of the National Research Council, which is actively 

 engaged in perfecting international arrangements for exploration and for 

 conservation of marine life, and in assisting the Australian National Re- 

 search Council in the organization of a Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress to 

 be held at Melbourne and Sydney, August 13 to September 2, 1923. 



In addition to public lectures and papers read before scientific socie- 

 ties, three articles and nine reviews have been prepared for publication and 

 progress has been made on a manuscript which is to form part of a volume 

 on the history of Hawaii. 



William T. Brigham, Director Emeritus, reports progress in the prep- 

 aration of a series of essays on Hawaiian ethnology. 



William H. Dall, Consulting Naturalist, has completed his study of 

 collections comprising more than twelve hundred species and varieties of 

 Mollusca and has submitted an extensive manuscript on the marine shell- 

 bearing Mollusca and Brachiopoda of Hawaii. 



In connection with the work of the Philippine Bureau of Science, 

 Elmer D. Merrill, Consulting Botanist, has identified large collections of 

 plants from Samoa and Tahiti and has devoted considerable time to the 

 preparation of a bibliography of Polynesian botany and to a card index of 

 references to systematic literature. Dr. Merrill has added to the herbar- 

 ium about four hundred sheets of Philippine plants and assisted in the 

 identification of the Polynesian collections. He has generously offered to 

 supply the Museum with a duplicate set of his index cards. 



In addition to his exacting duties as entomologist of the Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters' Experimental Station, Otto H. Swezey, Consulting Ento- 

 mologist, has generously given much time and thought to increasing the 



