Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-28
BISHOP TRUST REPORT
ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM
MADE DURING YEAR
FUND NOW NEARLY HALF A MIL.
LIoN-ExPENDiTuRE TO DE.
vELoP WATER ON
HAWAII.

There is much interesting matter in
the report of the c. r. Bishop trustees
just filed In the Circuit Court. II Is
for the year ended October ~, In
which $16s,421 was received and S144..
S5S discussed, leaving balance on
hand of $23,3S2. An expenditure OF
S1O,439 was made from capital &C.
count for the investigation of water
resources In Waipio valley. Hawaii;
also of $3.067 for koa lumber from
which to make cases for the museum.
The trust fund now amounts to
s473.329. which is made up as follows:
Real property, $1O4.946; hills receiv-
able, S203,000, and bonds $4,000. In
the C. r. Bishop life interest trust.
which forms a part of the trust fund.
there is $4,000. consisting OF $4,000
In bills receivable. s21.0 in bonds,
and $4,000 capital stock of the Oahu
Railway.
or new specimens added within the
year. the report says: During the
year many additions have been made
to the collection of Natural History
specimens In the Museum. the most
costly being the skeleton OF a large
Right whale, purchased from Wards
Establishment. Rochester, New York,
for $4,000. freight. etc., and the plac-
ing of the specimen in Hawaiian Hall
brought the total cost to s4,s30.13.
MANY specimens have also been
acquired by exchange Others, par
ticularly birds, have been procured by
the Museum stan. Mr.. Irwin Scale be-
Ing at the present time absent. explor'
Ing for specimens In Southeastern Pc.
lynesia. Mr., Scale left Honolulu in
October of last year to be gone one
year. He reports meeting with much
success, and asks for years exten'
sion of time to enable him to work the
high mountains OF Tahiti and the Lee
ward group and then proceed to the
Cook Islands.
Through the kindness OF Messrs
W. c. Peacock. Thos. Fitch and 9th
ers the Museum was also enabled to
send one OF its stan, Mr.. William A.
Bryan. to Marcus Island on the recent
| trip of the schooner Julia f. Whalen
Mr.. Bryan, who has now returned, Sc
cured more than thousand specimens
OF birds, plants. and marine animals
and was also able to draft an excellent
chart OF the island. The scientific re
suits of this trip, It is hoped, will ap
pear in tho next report of the direct
or"
Speaking OF publications, the trus
tees report the purchase OF Dr. N. b
Emerson's translation OF David Malo''
Archaeology, which is to be published
at an early date, the manuscript nov
being ready for the press. The de
mand for Hawaiian Feather Work
induced the trustees to get out an ex
ira edition OF $50 copies, together with
supplement. The directors repor
and other publications were also pub
lished during the year, and, with thu
exception of the Fauna Hawaiiensis.
published in England solely for eS
change purposes. all these publica
lions were offered for sale.
or the Department OF technology, tn
trustees report; "Mr. ]. w. ThomI
son has accomplished most satlsfac
tory results in this most importan
branch OF the Museums, great man
casts OF Hawaiian fishes having bee
made and artistically painted to rel
resent the actual colors OF the variou
and beautifully marked fish found 4
: these waters. Mr.. Thompson has ala
! discovered several species OF fish sal
to be new to science. 1t is expecte