The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-28
YEARS WORK
IN MUSEUM
Many Specimens
Have Been
Added.
REPORT MADE BY
BISHOP TRUSTEES
A Monster Whale Now on tx
h'bition-New Explorations.
Fish Experiments.

An interesting account of the work
| and purposes of the Bishop Museum
| is given in the annual report of the
trustees, which has just been filed with
the circuit court, as is required under
the provisions of the G. r. Bishop
/ trust. The report covers the work of
the museum for the year ending Octo-
Der II, and contains much of interest
concerning Honolulus most interest
ing institution.
! The total receipts for the year
amounted to s16S,421, while the dis
! bursements during the same period
were $144,85S, leaving a balance on
hand of $23,382. This includes also an
expenditure of $10,439 from the capital
account, which was used in the inves-
+! LEGATIONS of water in Waipio Valley on
Hawaii, and in the purchase of koa
, lumber for cases to the amount of
$3,O67
The trust fund now amounts to
! $473, 1929 which is made up as follows:
Real property, s104,946; bills receiv-
able, sos, 900, and bonds $4,000. In
the C. R. Bishop life interest trust
which forms part of the trust fund,
there is $4,000, consisting of $4,000
in bills receivable, 900 in bonds,
and $4,000 capital stock of the Oahu
Railway.
| Speaking of the water investigations
being made in the Waipio and Homo
| kane valleys, Hawaii, the trustees in
their report say: "These investiga-
tions are being made in conjunction
with the trustees of the estate of B. P.
Bishop, who control the land of Homo
kane and who will bear one-third Of
the total cost. The work is an import
ant one, and is expected to place the
trustees in position to decide as TO
the best disposition of the valuable
water rights involved Mr.. Arthur S.
Tuttle, a competent hydraulic engineer
of Brooklyn, New York, was engaged
to come to Hawaii, and after careful
study of the conditions, by a sojourn
] in the valleys mentioned during a
period of six months, has returned to
| New York, where he is now compiling
maps and report, which he expects 10
finish during the course of another
| thirty days"
| Speaking of the new koa cases, the
trustees say: Work on the new cases,
| ETC., is progressing satisfactorily, al
| though some unavoidable delay, occa-
stoned by the non-shipment of the koa
lumber, which the trustees were to sup
! ply, has rendered it impossible for the
| work to be completed within the time
specified in the contract, May II, 1902.
Prof Brigham, director of the Museum,
! however. reports, under date of Octo-
| Der 10 that The cases in the upper gal
| lery of Hawaiian Hall will be complete
! this week with the exception OF the lit
| and certain hardware, which is sup
posed to be in shipment of cases now
| long overdue. The cases on the ground
| floor are now nearly complete ana
ready for the polishers, with the eX-
ception of few pieces of koa required
! to place between the cases and the pre-
vious woodwork. Suitable koa is diff
| cult to procure in town.. Under the
circumstances, therefore, although not
strictly in accordance with the letter
of the contract, the trustees have
agreed to pay the contractors with the
consent of their bondsmen. $4,000 on
account of the first payment under the
contract, which will be due upon the
| final completion and acceptance of the
upper gallery"
| Of new specimens added within the
year, the report says: During the
year many additions have been made to
the collection of Natural History spec
linens in the Museum, the most costly
| being the skeleton of a large Right
whale, purchased from Wards Estab-
| lishment. Rochester, New York, for
| 81 500, freight, etc, and the placing OF
| the specimen in Hawaiian Hall brought
the total cost to S4,S3O.13.
MANY specimens have also been &C
quired by exchange. Others, partic-
ularly birds, have been procured by the
Museum staff, Mr.. Irwin Scale being at
the present time absent, exploring for
specimens in Southeastern Polynesia.
Mr.. Scale left Honolulu in October of
last year to be gone one year. He re-
ports meeting with Iauch success, and
asks for a years extension OF time to
enable him to work the high mountains
of Tahiti and the Leeward group and
then proceed to the Cook Islands.
Through the kindness of Messrs. w.
C. Peacock, Thos. Fitch and others, the
Museum was also enabled to send one
of its staff, Mr.. William A. Bryan, to
Marcus Island on the recent trip of the
schooner Julia E. Whalen. Mr.. Bryan,
who has now returned, secured more
than thousand specimens of birds.
plants. and marine animals, and was
also able to draft an excellent chart
of the island. The scientific results of
this trip, it is hoped. will appear in the
next report of the director.
Speaking of publications. the trustees
report the purchase of DR.. n. B. Emer-
sons translation of David Malo's
Archaeology. which is to be publisher
at an early date, the manuscript nov