1>80 CM.y2, 
'I'kACHINO in TIIK JMUSKUM. 
This work is still maiul.'iined by the liberality of ;i, Boston lady 
who ajjpreciatos our work in this direction and lK>])es that it may 
be made a permanent department. 
The attendance, meaning by this those who listened to the 
guide and followed him more or less through the Museum, has 
sensibly increased this year, and the guide reports greater interest 
on the part of the public. He reports that persons who have 
heard the general lectures are apt to return with a desire to get 
further instruction upon some special subjects that have interested 
them, and also that his attention has been called to some persons 
who have come several times so as to hear the lesson repeated by 
the guide. A small number of persons have through the interest 
thus excited been led to purchase copies of the guide books on 
mineralogy and geology in order to examine and study more 
specitically in those collections. 
The estimates of the numbers re|»orted as having listened to 
the guide are necessarily defective, because of the difficulty of 
obtaining any accurate count, but they are as follows: 1893, 
May, 43fi ; Sept., 497 ; Oct., 470 ; Nov., 193 ; 1894, April, 387. 
This department has been enlarged during the present year by 
the granting of special privileges to a class of thirteen advanced 
students under the direction of their teacher. Miss Dora Williams. 
This class has systematically visited and studied in the Museum 
twice a week during Februai-y and March, and have also made 
other visits for the purpose of studying more specially the 
collection of minerals and rocks, using Professor Crosby's guide- 
books as aids in this work. 
Dynamical Zoology. 
The work upon this collection has been steadily progressing. 
The mounting of the species of Achatinellinae upon the duplicate 
relief map of Oahu is well advanced, so far as the experimental 
part of the undertaking is concerned. This is unexpected good 
fortune, since in his last report the Curator had no hopes of 
getting to this point for a year or more. The j)late showing the 
evolution of the Arietidae has been completed and hung in its 
place. A set of mounted plants illustrating the action of similar 
