a member of the Society upon application to the Secretary, 

 Mr. J. H. Taylor, of the College of Charleston, or to the 

 Director of the Museum. There is an initiation fee of fifty 

 cents and semi-annual dues of twenty five cents, in return for 

 which members receive the Bulletin of the Museumi. 



A very satisfactory trial has been made in the field of the 

 bird guide published by Mr. C. K. Reed, of Worcester, Mass., 

 and copies will be placed on sale at the Museum at fifty cents 

 apiece. 



ON VISITING MUSEUMS. 



The increasing number of teachers visiting the Museum 

 with their classes has been noted with pleasure. In this 

 connection the following paragraph, reprinted from The 

 Museum News, of Brooklyn, N. Y., will be found to contain 

 helpful suggestions. 



It is a good thing to visit a museum; it is a better thing to 

 visit it with some definite purpose. This applies more par- 

 ticularly to teachers with classes and to natural history col- 

 lections. If even the chance visitor, wandering through a 

 museum, does not get some new idea, the museum is probably 

 at fault ; if children accompanied by a teacher do not obtain 

 some infonnation from a visit to a museum, the teacher is 

 probably at fault. It is well for a teacher to visit a museum 

 herself before going there with a class, as she (this pronoun 

 will include the great majority of teachers) will then have 

 a much better idea than she otherwise would ol why the chil- 

 dren are going. 



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