elder Agassiz and the Museum was transferred to rooms set 

 apart for its use by the College of Charleston, under whose 

 auspices it has grown steadily to the present time. 



The New Building 



The present quarters of the Museum are difficult of access, 

 badly lighted, over crowded, and entirely without work 

 rooms and storage rooms. The last annual report of the 

 Director reviewed the movement for a better building 

 which was the most prominent feature of our 

 work in 1906. On the 8th of January 1907, City Council 

 gave its final approval to a lease of the Thomson Auditorium 

 to the Trustees of the Museum and provided a special appro- 

 priation of $7,500 for remodeling and repairing the building. 



In preparing plans for the new Museum the Director 

 visited most cf the large museums in the East and received 

 valuable suggestions from many sources, especially from Dr. 

 F. W. True, of the National Museum, and from Messrs. 

 Hornblower and Marshall, architects of the new National 

 Museum, who went over all the plans in detail and gave 

 many valuable suggestions, without expense to the Museum. 



The entire preparation of detailed plans and drawings was 

 in the hands of Mr. F. W. Wamsley, of the staff, who made 

 the drawings. Mr. Wamsley also had charge of the dis- 

 mantling of much of the interior of the building before the 

 contracts were let. Through his energy and careful super- 

 vision this work was completed at the small cost of $165, 

 and all the material cleaned, sorted and stacked so that it 

 has been possible to use nearly all of it in rebuilding— a 

 second important saving. 



During the summer many unfortunate delays prevented 

 progress but during the fall the work has been going for- 

 ward steadily. The main changes are nearly completed and 

 the building can be finished in a short time when a further 

 appropriation is available. 



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