him peculiar qualifications for the task of restoring lost lo- 

 calities and other records of specimens in the Museum. As 

 a descendant of an old Charleston family, Prof. Martin has 

 keen interest in the welfare of this city. Not only has he 

 already enriched cur collections by the gift and deposit of 

 many valuable specimens, but in the event of the transfer 

 of the Museum to the Thompson Auditorium, has offered to 

 deposit with it his v/hole extensive and important private 

 collection. 



Mr. \Vm. G. Mazyck is a student of conchology of fifty 

 years standing. He has published numerous conchological 

 papers in scientific journals and has been in correspondence 

 with conchologists in every country of the civilized world. 

 His collection of North American land snails is probably the 

 finest in the world. Mr. Mazyck is at present engaged 

 in revising the Museum collections of shells, untouched 

 for many years; and also in preparing a special exhibit of 

 local shells. 



Mr. Arthur T. Wayne has been engaged in ornithological 

 research for twenty-five years, and since 1884 has published 

 steadily in the Auk and other ornithological journals. At 

 the present time, Mr. Wayne is considered the authority on 

 the birds of this state, and one of the best ornithologists in 

 the South. His records, extending the range of many West- 

 ern species to South Carolina, are among the most important 

 of his contributions to or;iithology, and a book now in prepa- 

 ration on the birds of the coast region of South Carolina is 

 awaited with much interest. Mr. Wayne is assisting in the 

 work of verification of the labels and records of the birds 

 in the Museum. 



This increase in the Museum staff is one of the grati- 

 fying results of the first year of renewed activity of the 

 Museum. Under former conditions, work at the Museum 

 was altogether curatorial in its nature, and the one or two 



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