The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-11-28
YEARS WORK
IN MUSEUM
Many Specimens
Have Been
Added.

trustees, which has just been filed with
the circuit court, as is required under
the provisions of the c. r. Bishop
trust. The report covers the work OF
the museum for the year ending Octo-
Der IL, and contains much of interest
concerning Honolulu's most interest
ing institution.
The total receipts for the year
amounted to sl6S,421, while the dis
bursements during the same period
were sli4,S5S, leaving a balance on
hand of 1882. This includes also an
expenditure of s10,439 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
s473,329, which is made up as follows
Real property, s1O4,946; bills receiv-
able, 100000, 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, sci 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-
lions are being made in conjunction
with the trustees of the estate of b. =.
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 a position to decide as TO
the best disposition of the valuable
water rights involved. Mr.. Arthur s.
futile, a competent hydraulic engineer
of Brooklyn, New York, was engaged
to come to Hawaii, and after a careful
study of the conditions, by sojourn
in the valleys mentioned during u
period Of six months, has returned to
New York, where he Is now compiling
maps and report, which he expects 20
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 gall
lery of Hawaiian Hall will be complete
this week with the exception of the lift
and certain hardware, which Is sup
posed to be in a 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-
vous 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 large Right
whale, purchased from Wards Estab-
lshment, Rochester, New York, for
81 500, freight, etc, and the placing Of
the specimen in Hawaiian Hall brought
the total cost to S4S3O13.
MANY specimens have also been ac-
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 much success, and
asks for years extension of time to
enable him to work the high mountains
of Tahiti and the Leeward group and
then proceed 10 the Cook Islands.
Through the kindness Of Messrs. w.
e, Peacock, Thos, fltch and others, the
Museum was also enabled to send one
Of It's staff, Mr., William A. Bryan, 10
Marcus Island on the recent trip OF the
schooner Julia Il, Whalen, Mr., Bryan,
who has now returned, secured more
than a thousand specimens Of birds,
plants, and marine animals, and was
also able 20 draft an excellent chart
OF The island, The scientific results Of
this trip, II II hoped, viii appear IN the
next report OF the Director
Speaking Of publications, the trustees
report the purchase Of DR. N II, Finer
sons translation Of David Mal0's
Archaeology, which l. % be- published
az an early date, the manuscript nov
heins ready for the press The demand
f0r Hawaiian Feather Work Induced
The trustees % got out an extra edition
Of 800 o0nies. together Win "a supple
menl Tho direcnrs report ana other