NOTES FROM THE MUSEUM 



The Museum is open to the public on Saturdays from 10 

 to 5 and on other week-days from 10 to 12 and 1 to 5. Chil- 

 dren unaccompanied by an adult are admitted only on Satur- 

 days. 



Professor Rea's lecture on "Museums of Natural History 

 and Their Work" was illustrated with lantern slides and spec- 

 imens of good and bad mounting from the Museum collections. 

 One of the best examples of skillful taxidermy in the Muse- 

 um is a group of English pheasants which was purchased this 

 month and exhibited for the first time at the lecture. It in- 

 cludes a cock, standing on an old stump, while the hen 

 crouches almost out of sight in the tall grass of the bog and 

 eight little chicks are busily looking for food. Each bird is 

 in a perfectly natural pose and the group shows the habits 

 as well as the form and coloring of the English pheasant. 

 Visitors to the Museum should not fail to see this new exhibit. 



The need of a suitable lecture room in the Museum has 

 been met by the recent alterations in Manigault Hall. A re- 

 arrangement of the archaeological collections has secured a 

 large floor space and the room has been provided with a plat- 

 form with a reading desk and a long table for display of 

 specimens, a sliding blackboard, and screens and electric 

 lights for the use of a new projection apparatus which will 

 be a prominent feature of the Museum lectures. This appar- 

 atus uses an electric lantern for projecting on a screen both 

 ^tereopticon and microscopic slides and makes it possible to 

 show the living animals and plants in a drop of water. 



The Museum wishes to receive gifts of phosphate fossils 

 in any quantity and of large garden slugs alive. 



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