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 Sat- 

 urdays. 



The Museum announces a lecture by the curator on Whales 

 AND Whaling to be given in Manigault Hall, Monday, Novem- 

 ber 27th, at 8.30 P. M. Many visitors at the Museum will be 

 interested in the history of the whales whose skeleton is 

 mounted in Agassiz Hall, and in learning something of the 

 life and habits of the different whales and porpoises and of 

 the methods of capturing them. The lecture will be illus- 

 trated with lantern slides. Entrance to the Museum Monday 

 evening may be had from St. Philip Street, or through the 

 College campus. 



The regular November meeting of the Charleston Natural 

 History Society was held in Manigault Hall, Tuesday after- 

 noon, November 14th. Officers were elected for the winter 

 term and the regular meetings of the Society were appointed 

 to be held on the first Tuesday in each month during the 

 college year, at 4.30 P. M. Rev. Robert Wilson, D. D., was 

 elected an honorary member of the Society. After a brief 

 announcement by the Director of plans for the ecological 

 study of birds the Society listened to an interesting talk by 

 the president, Mr. H. R. Sass, describing twenty-five of the 

 most common birds found in Charleston and vicinity during 

 the winter months. The talk was illustrated with specimens 

 from the Museum, and these have since been placed in a 

 separate case in Agassiz Hall for convenient study. 



Professor Rea was invited to deliver the address on the 

 occasion of the planting of trees on the grounds of the new 

 Dorchester school building at Summerville in observation of 

 Arbor Day. He described the function of the parts of a tree, 

 the influence of environment upon form and growth, and the 

 uses of ornamental and timber trees. 



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