done at the Museum every month, and if you wish to keep 

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 the Museum for a renewal of your subscription. 



In consequence of the g-eneral revision and rearrangement 

 of collections, which is in progress at the Museum, visitors 

 will find considerable temporary confusion. Much time will 

 yet be required to complete the installation of the Manigault 

 Osteological Collection. Mr. William G. Mazyck, of Charles- 

 ton, has undertaken a much-needed revision of the shells 

 and is preparing a special exhibit of local shells, which will 

 enable visitors to identify specimens of their own collected 

 on nearby beaches. Announcement of the completion of 

 the exhibit will be made in the Bulletin. The preparation 

 of the exhibit of local birds (described on page 19) has made 

 some confusion in the general collection. A complete re- 

 arrangement of this collection is underway. Pro- 

 fessor Daniel J. Martin, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is now 

 engaged upon a much-needed general revision of the collec- 

 tion of rocks and minerals. A further account of his work 

 will appear in the Bulletin. 



848 visitors were recorded at the Museum in February and 

 836 in January. The recording turnstile has been in use just 

 a year, and it will be possible hereafter to compare the monthly 

 attendance of successive years. 



The policy of devoting a portion of the Museum lectures 

 to dissemination of timely scientific infomation on subjects 

 of public interest has met with , such general approval that 

 the Director is encouraged to hope that these simple discus- 

 sions may help to enlist public opinion on the side of pro- 

 gressive modern science. The Museum notes with pleasure 

 that the South Carolina Medical Society has just undertaken 

 a similar line of work in a particular field, with its publica- 

 tion in the daily press of timely articles on hygiene and sani- 

 tation. 



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