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. 



Manigault Hall, which has been closed for some months 

 during the progress of alterations necessary to convert it 

 into a lecture-room, is again open to the public, except at 

 times when it is ia use for lectures. The archaeological and 

 ethnological collections have been rearranged about the 

 v/alls, leaving the center of the hall free for an audience 

 room. A platform with a lecturer's desk and long table for 

 exhibition of specimens has been constructed and a movable 

 blackboard placed behind it. On the opposite side of the 

 room a powerful electric lantern has been installed for the 

 projection of lantern slides and microscopic objects, includ- 

 ing living forms. 



The curator is pleased to announce at the beginning of the 

 college year the opening of a library for the Museum and the 

 Department of Biology. The remodelling • of Manigault Hall 

 for use as a lecture-room has made it possible to devote to 

 this purpose a sm.all room formerly used as a class-room. A 

 large new bookcase affords accommodation for the many rare 

 and valuable scientific books belonging to the College and 

 Museum. These have hitherto been inaccessible, having 

 been stored away in the over-crov/ded library building of the 

 college. The new library renders available the complete sets 

 of scientific publications of the government, and the curator 

 has this year added a number of new books and journals. 



During the past two years a card catalogue of this library 

 has been in preparation and is now nearly completed. It 

 contains also cards for the scientific books of the Charleston 

 Library Society. It is the wish of the curator to make this 

 catalogue a reference list of the scientific resources of 



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