lO Bcrnicc P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



the presence of natives on an island. I found that the common house fly of Hawaii 

 was not that of Europe and the United States, as formerly supposed, but a variety 

 of a distinctly different species, appearing along the western shores of the Pacific. 

 Since it is known that these flies will follow man, even in small boats, and since 

 there is evidence that house flies were in Hawaii when Captain Cook arrived, one 

 may fairly conclude that they came with the natives along their lines of migration. 

 It is interesting to note that our evidence of the migration of these insects exactly 

 coincides with what is now presumed to have been the line of migration of the 

 earliest pcoi)U-s reacliin,^ the shores of tlie Hawaiian islands. 



In addition to her routine duties, Bertha Metzger, Assistant to the 

 Director, has acted as critic of papers submitted for publication. Assisted 

 by Lahilahi Webb, Thomas G. Thrum, C. F. Gessler, and other members 

 of the staff, she assumed the difficult task of editing the manuscript and 

 reading the proof of the Hawaiian Dictionary. Miss Metzger wrote an 

 article, "Sayings of the South Seas," which was published in the Paradise 

 of the Pacific, December, 1922. 



George C. Munro, Associate in Ornithology, has continued his success- 

 ful search for rare birds. He observes that the native forest birds of 

 Hawaii are still thriving and some of the species, at least, appear to be 

 increasing in number. 



Marie C. Neal, Assistant Malacologist, continued her laboratory work 

 of preparing material for study and of arranging specimens for exchange. 

 Much time was given to cataloging the Wilder collection of Hawaiian land 

 shells. The field work of Miss Neal included collecting trips to Hawaii 

 and to the Waianae Mountains of Oahu. In connection with her investi- 

 gations, graduate work was done in the University of Hawaii. 



Carl Skottsberg, Director Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden, 

 and Bishop Museum Fellow for 1922-23, spent four months in a study 

 of indigenous Hawaiian plants with reference to the general subject 

 of plant distribution in the Pacific. Collections of mosses, hepatics, and 

 lichens were made and distributed among specialists for determination. 

 Dr. Skottsberg prepared a memorandum on the present condition of the 

 herbarium and on the plans for its development. 



F. L. Stephens, Professor of Botany, University of Illinois, and Bish- 

 op Museum Fellow for 1921-22, reports the practical completion of a manu- 

 script resulting from field study of fungi on the islands of Hawaii, Kauai. 

 Oahu, and Maui. 



John F. G. Stokes, Ethnologist, returned to Honolulu in November, 

 after a two years' absence in the Austral Islands as a member of the Bayard 

 Dominick Expedition. His particular field was the islands of Rapa, 

 Rurutu, and Raivavae, where the material culture and archaelogy were 

 studied and anthropometrical data collected. Some time was also given to 



