Providence, has within a few weeks, closed at an advanced age, a life of 

 liberal culture, refined taste, and high character. He died on the 3rd 

 July last, and was interred on St. Simon's Island, Georgia. A private 

 letter remarks that 'all his old servants who could get conveyance' at- 

 tended his funeral. 



"It is gratifying to know, that our College selected by himself as the 

 depository of his collections, has preserved, during the dangers of the 

 war, this worthy memorial of his science and industry." 



(See an exceedingly interesting and elaborate Report made 

 by Mr. Daniel Ravenel, President, to the Board of Trustees 

 of the College, at a meeting held August 27, 1866. ) 



On January 21, 1869, Prof. Holmes, after a service of 

 nearly nineteen years, resigned the Curatorship, and March 

 19 following Prof. John McCrady was elected his successor. 

 Prof. McCrady called to his assistance Dr. William Hume, 

 under whose skilful hands much valuable work was done, 

 especially in the Mineralogical Department of the collection. 



Prof. McCrady resigned June 24, 1873, and was succeeded 

 by Dr. Gabriel E. Manigault, who was elected on August 6, 

 and who, notwithstanding a tendency to rather subordinate 

 the purely scientific to the more particularly aesthetic fea- 

 tures of the Museum, did some most admirable work, adding 

 many exceedingly valuable and interesting specimens to the 

 store of its treasures, notably among the larger North 

 American Mammals. Dr. Manigault was an Osteologist of 

 exceptional ability, and his beautiful preparations of skele- 

 tons, illustrating almost every family of the vertebrates, can 

 hardly be equalled anywhere. Many of these, however, 

 were mounted and deposited in the Museum during Prof. 

 Holmes' administration. He was, too, fond of cabinet 

 work and possessed of considerable mechanical skill, of 

 which, as well as of his taste and care, many of the cases 

 and much of the shelving and other appointments of the 

 Museum bear witness. This skill was productive of most 

 excellent results in the repair and rehabilitation of the 

 College Buildings after the disastrous earthquake of August 



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