The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-04-29
TO REVOKE
HIS PERMIT
The Agricultural
Board After
Brigham.
From Thursdays Advertiser.)


The Board of Agriculture at yester-
days meeting decided to ask the Secre-
tary of Agriculture to revoke the per-
init granted to Curator w. r. Brigham
of the Bishop Museum for the importa-
tion of museum specimens. The appli-
cation will be made directly to James
F. Wilson. Secretary of the Department
of Agriculture.
There is a law prohibiting the impor-
tation of obnoxious animals and birds,
although museum specimens are eX-
smpted. At the meeting yesterday, a.
W. Carter who with L. A. Thurston had
been appointed on a special committee
to investigate Brigham's importation of
the kea, or sheep-killing bird, made
report He quoted the law and it's APP
plication to the present case as follows:
Act of Congress dated May 25th,
1900, Section 2, provides That 1t shall
be unlawful for any person or persons
to import into the United States any
foreign wild animal or bird except un-
der special permit from the United
States Department of Agriculture, Pro-
vided, that nothing in this section shall
restrict the importation of natural his
tory specimens for museum or scentif-
ic collections, or the Importation of
certain cage birds, such az domes-
ticated canaries, parrots, or such other
species as the Secretary of Agriculture
may designate.
The importation of the mongoose,
the so-called Flying Foxes or fruit
bats, the English sparrow, the starting
or such other birds or animals as the
Secretary of Agriculture may from
time to time declare injurious to the
interest of agriculture or horticulture
is hereby prohibited, and such species
upon arrival at any of the ports of the
United States shall be destroyed or re-
turned at the expense of the owner.
The Secretary of the Treasury is here
by authorized to make regulations for
carrying into effect the provisions of
this section.
1T does not appear to be clear that
the importation of natural history spec
linens for museums or scientific collec-
tons requires a permit l am of the
opinion that these are excepted under
the act and do not require a permit.
Having been informed however that
the Director of the Bishop Museum has
general permit to introduce specimens
from the Secretary of Agriculture l
would recommend that the Board re-
quest the cancellation of such permit"
Upon motion the report was adopted
and then Mr. Carter moved that the
Board of Agriculture request that Pro-
lessor Brighams permit be revoked.
then moved that the board request the
appointment of an inspector by the fed
eral authorities, who should be under
the authority of the board. This mo-
ton was also carried.
HOSMER MAKES REPORT
Forester Hosmer made a report of
his investigation of the Waianae range
and the Eva basin, giving also the
details of the work at the government
nursery and the Nuuanu forest. a
number of plants had been received
during the week from Mr.. Wilcox of
Kauai.
Mr.. Hosmer stated that he had met
representatives of the Bishop Estate
and w. +. Dillingham; in reference to
the lands in the districts and said he
hoped to bring Il definite proposition
before the board for the preservation
OF the Waianae forests.
j. Il, Higgins, on behalf of the Farm
ers Institute, thanked the Board OF
Agriculture for the use of the rooms
for the meeting of the society
THE CACAO EXPERIMENT,
4 letter was received from Jared C
smith stating that the United State'
experiment station had leased five acres
OF lanl near itllo Tor the purposes OF q
banana and cacau experiment lie de-
sired the permission of the board {,
import cucao seeds from samoa for eN,
perImental purposes, samoa WAS state,
90 be- tho nearest place from which ms
srrds could be- Imported, and H,a,
trees in rrylun Trinidad and olhel
places wore affected with disease,
Nr Dlnarl tuld uf thr results DE- ha,
obtained from rAuu srri unlalur.
nom Samoa tnuuEh lhruiurr Wnuu
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