chair of Biology in the College of Charleston. In that year 

 the appointment of Honorary Curators was authorized by 

 the Trustees and the Director has been fortunate in securing 

 for these positions men whose special knowledge has safe- 

 guarded the interests of the departments which they serve. 

 Thus, the ornithological work of the past two years must 

 have been all but impossible without the technical knowl- 

 edge of Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, while the entire activity of the 

 geological department is the work of its enthusiastic and 

 devoted honorary curator, Professor Daniel Strobel Martin. 

 To Mr. Wm. G. Mazyck the Museum is indebted for the 

 thankless task of revising the sadly neglected conchological 

 collections and also for the historical investigations already 

 mentioned. 



In January Mr. Francis W. Wamsley joined the staff 

 as the first salaried assistant. Mr. Wamsley is a graduate 

 of Brown University and an experienced marine collector. 

 He came to Charleston from the Supply Department of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. Mr. 

 Wamsley has had charge of the work in the new building 

 and has shown a versatility and a devotion to the Museum 

 to which is due much of the progress made. 



In April Mr. Herbert R. Sass, who had been temporarily 

 employed by the Museum for several months, became a 

 regular assistant. Mr. Sass is a graduate of the College of 

 Charleston. He has had charge of the records of the 

 Museum, and in the absence of a regular librarian, has pre- 

 pared the shelf list and carried the routine work of the 

 Library. The latter work has entirely prevented Mr. Sass 

 from carrying on the scientific work for which he is trained. 



The proper maintenance of the Museum Library and the 

 curatorial work of the Museum urgently require the im- 

 mediate addition to the staff of a trained librarian. Under 

 present conditions the salary of the librarian must be raised 

 from private sources. 



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