March 6, at 4.30 P. M., and all readers of the Bulletin who 

 are interested in our native birds are invited to be present. 



A large case on the north side of Agassiz Hall is tempo- 

 rarily devoted to an exhibit of birds common in the coast 

 region of South Carolina at this season. This exhibit is in- 

 tended as an aid in 'the work of the Natural History Society 

 and will be revised from time to time with the departure of 

 winter visitants and the arrival of spring visitants and sum- 

 mer residents. This exhibit will be necessarily incomplete 

 until the Museum has more accurate migration records. 



An important addition to the Museum library is Coues' 

 "Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina" (1868), the last 

 list based on actual field work. 



A recent addition to the shelves of the Charleston Library 

 Society, is a book which will delight young and old alike, the 

 student of science as well as the non-scientific lover of 

 stories of adventure and hunting — "Flashlights in the 

 Jungle", by C. G. Schillings, translated from the German 

 by Frederic Whyte. This book is a record of hunting adven- 

 tures and of studies in wild life made by a great field- 

 naturalist, ' 'a trained scientific observer as well as a mighty 

 hunter." The unusual feature of this book of thrilling tales 

 is the illustration afforded by 302 of the author's ' 'untouched" 

 photographs, taken by day and night in the jungle and on 

 the plains. Photographs of wild animals, taken in complete 

 freedom, are necessarily rare, and besides compelling intense 

 interest, constitute biological documents of the highest im- 

 portance. 



Monday evening, January 29th, Professor Rea lectured in 

 Manigault Hall on "The Geological History of the Great 

 Lakes." 



The Museum announces a public lecture on * 'Typhoid 

 Fever" to be given by Professor Rea in Manigault Hall Mon- 

 day evening. February 26th, at 8.30 P. M. 



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