BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 3 CHARLESTON, S. C, DECEMBER, 1907 No. 8 



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HISTORY OF TME riUSEUH NEW YOW 



BOTAI • 



The Period Subsequent to 1850 ^^^ 



By William G. Mazyck 



A few weeks before the election of the Curator, on Tues- 

 day, July 30, 1850, at a meeting of the Standing Committee, 

 ' 'The Chairman stated that Dr. Frost, Dean of the Faculty 

 of the Medical College had informed him. that the building 

 now containing the Museum of the Philosophical Society, 

 would be shortly taken down for the Roper Hospital about 

 to be erected— and that it would be necessary to remove the 

 same to the College of Charleston— whereupon it was re- 

 solved that the specimens contained in said Museum be ac- 

 cordingly removed to the library of the College of Charles- 

 ton, Dr. Frost having kindly oifered to attend to the removal 

 of the specimens and cases in which they are contained. ' ' 



In the selection of a Curator for the Museum the Board 

 made a most admirable choice, for Mr. Holmes, besides be- 

 ing an ardent lover of nature and an enthusiastic student of 

 ^ Natural History and Geology, was a man of tireless energy, 

 and possessing a certain indiscribable charm of manner, he 

 soon enlisted the interest of a large number of friends in the 

 new enterprise, whose numerous contributions, added to the 

 treasures of ' 'the Old Museum, ' ' enabled him ' 'in the short 



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