32 Bcrnicc P. Bishop Museum — Bulletin 



John W. Thompson, crabs and sponges from Honolulu harbor and Pearl Harbor ; 

 Gerrit P. Wilder, a crab (Chitrybdis crylhroditctyht) and a small lish from shores 

 of Oahu. 



John W. Thompson purchased in the Honolulu markets and presented to the 

 Museum 17 Hawaiian fishes and i from Palmyra, 5 crustaceans, and i echinoderm. 

 He has given also a piece of fossil coral and 2 moUusks from China. In behalf of 

 the Museum he has purchased 9 fishes and has been instrumental in obtaining others. 



Donations to the zoological collections have been made as follows : Captain 

 V. A. Brisson, coral from Mangareva ; Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn, coconut crab (Birgus 

 latro) from Palmyra; Kamehameha School students, 3 fishes; Mr. T. Kawaguchi. 

 fish from Palmyra; Mr. Orlando Lyman, porcupine fish (Diodoii liisti-i.r) ; Com- 

 mander Picking, mollusk, corals, and hermit crabs from Wake Island; Mr. H. L. 

 Kclley, a frog-fish (Antennarius) ; Mr. Matsujiro Otani, a trigger fish from Pal- 

 myra ; Mr. J. P. Ponte, crab (Dromia niinfihii) caught at Waianae, Oahu; Mr. 

 C. A. Reeves, fish {Caranx kuhli) caught off Oahu; Mr. L. A. Thurston, crab 

 (Raniiia serrata) from Honolulu market; Mr. Manuel Vasconcellos, large eel skin 

 from Palmyra ; Mr. J. M. Westgate, an eel caught ofif Diamond Head, Oahu. 



Mr. Edmondson further reports tRat "As a result of the exchange policy there 

 virere added to the crustacean collection 104 specimens from the Australian Museum, 

 and 123 specimens from the Zoological Survey of India. The Museum recipro- 

 cated by presenting these institutions with collections of Hawaiian Crustacea from 

 our exchange material." 



Other material received in exchange includes SO lizards, collected by the Whit- 

 ney South Seas Expedition, given by the American Museum of Natural History; 

 several skins of birds and small mammals, alcoholic specimens of amphibians and 

 mollusks from Eastern North America, and a piece of mammoth skin from Rus- 

 sia given by Mr. E. L. Mosely. 



From Mr. Matsujiro Otani the Museum purcliased a fine specimen of tlie 

 moon-fish (Laiuf'iis hina) caught off Waianae, Oahu. 



MISCIi:LL.\NEOUS M.'\TERIAL 



To the collections of miscellaneous material, gifts have been made by various 

 persons as follows : 



Mr. R. W. Atkinson, rock fragments containing crystals of olivene ; Mr. .\rthur 

 Coyne, royal standard and house flag of the Hawaiian Monarchy; Mr. C. P. 

 laukea, daguerreotype of Mr. Gorham D. Gilman, 1861 ; Dr. E. K. Johnstone, oil 

 painting by Princess Kaiulani ; Mr. William Wagener, boulder containing prisms 

 of basalt; Mr. William Weinrich, collection of fiber samples and products from 

 many parts of the world; Mrs. Lilly West, wooden cane: Mr. H. M. Wliituey. 

 block and die for Hawaiian and United States 13-cent postage stamp, 1854. 



By exchange the Museum received from Mr. Spencer Bickerton a Copley 

 medal given by the Royal Society of London to Rt. Hon. Sir J. Banks, and one 

 given to Captain James Cook ; from Mr. E. L. Moseley, rock specimens from Ohio 

 and vicinity. 



Eight drawings and water color paintings done by J. Webber, artist of the 

 last voyage of Captain James Cook (1776-80), were purchased in London. Each 

 illustrates an event or subject witnessed in Hawaii by Webber. Some of them are 

 reproduced in the atlas accompanying the account of Cook's voyages. Three of 



