The Biillelin is published monthly from October to May by the College of Charles- 

 ton and is devoted to descriptions of exhibits, reports of lectures, and notes from the 

 iMuscum. Entered at the post office at Charleston, S. C, as second class matter. 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Edited by PAUL M. RE A N. 



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DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM AND PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY r>.^r „, 



Vol. 2 Charleston, S. C, October, 1906 No. 6 



HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



The Collections of the Charleston Library Society 



FROM 1798 TO 1815 



So far as is now known, the history of the Museum begins 

 with the collections of the Charleston Library Society, which 

 formed the nucleus of the museum of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of South Carolina, as described in a re- 

 cent number of the Bulletin, * and which was itself trans- 

 ferred to the College of Charleston Museum in 1850. 



A prolonged search among the records of the Library So- 

 ciety has recently brought to light a most interesting list of 

 the specimens presented to the Museum from 1798 to 1808. 

 This list is contained in a small notebook, together with lists 



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