Botanical Garden. These have not yet arrived, however. The 

 same is the case with a large representative series of Eocene 

 fossils from various localities in the Southern States, offered 

 as a gift, by the liberality of the Rev. Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, 

 of New York City. 



In the department of mineralogy, an exchange has been 

 arranged with the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, 

 whereby the latter is to receive some thirty species of duplicate 

 birds from this museum, giving in return about a hundred 

 mineral specimens, mostly duplicates from the collection of the 

 late Dr. Gibbes of this city. The birds have been carefully 

 selected by the Honorary Curator, Mr. Wayne, and the min- 

 erals by Dr. Martin, in conjunction with Prof. Twitchell, who 

 holds the chair of geology at Columbia. This exchange is 

 one of advantage to both institutions, and it is hoped may be 

 only the first in a aeries of similar transactions of friendly 

 co-operation. 



The Honorary Curator has sent on from New York the 

 greater part of his extensive collections, gathered during forty 

 years, in mineralogy and geology, to be deposited' in this 

 museum. A considerable part of this valuable mlaterial, he 

 designs to present as a gift, and has already done so with 

 portions of it. But until the new building is'i ready for oc- 

 cupancy, it is not deemed wise to unpack more than is actually 

 needed for special use; and these collections will remain for 

 the present in their boxes, to be described at a subsequent date. 



WORK OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



The February meeting of the Natural History Society was 

 attended by ai large number of visitors who listened to a talk 

 by the vice-president, Mrs. PauJ M. Rea, on The Owls of 



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