Ffancis S. Holmes on the terms on which they will lodge 

 their Palaeontological collections, or part of them in the Col- 

 lege of Charleston. 



"Resolved that the Chairman at his earliest convenience 

 prepare and lay before the Committee a report on the estab- 

 lishment of a College Museum." 



June 14 the Committee again met and "the Chairman 

 made an elaborate report on the subject of the proposed Mu- 

 seum of Natural History— which had been referred to the 

 Standing Committee— embracing the correspondence of the 

 gentlemen who had tendered their collections of specimens, 

 and much other valuable information on the subject. When 

 it was resolved that the said report be made at an early day 

 to the Board of Trustees." 



Accordingly at the meeting of the Board on July 15, 1850, 

 "The President submitted to the board the report of the 

 Standing Committee on the subject of the geological & fossil 

 specimens offered by Mr. Tuomey, Mr. Agassiz, Dr. Bach- 

 man and Mr. Holmes — for the purpose of founding a Museum 

 of Natural History in the College of Charleston— whereupon 

 it was resolved, 'That the report of the Standing Committee 

 on the subject of a Museum be, and is hereby, accepted and 

 Confirmed, and that it be submitted to the Mayor & Council 

 for their consideration.' " 



The minutes of City Council were lost during the war, but 

 fortunately in the Charleston Courier of Friday, July 19, 

 1850, we find the following lengthy but interesting and im- 

 portant item: 



' 'The following is the communication from the Trustees of 

 the Charleston College, omitted in the published Proceedings 

 of Council yesterday: 



"When the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held their meeting in Charleston, in March last, several of it's most dis- 

 tinguished members expressed the opinion that the City possessed pecu- 

 liar advantages for the establishment in it of a Museum of Natural History. 



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