A special entrance on the north side of the building leads to 

 a room for the storage and preparation of fresh and alcoholic 

 material for the Museum or for the biological laboratory, which 

 is located between this room and the classroom. The laboratory 

 has a north light for microscopic work and the usual furniture 

 and apparatus. 



West of the preparation room is a space unutilized as yet but 

 designed ultimately for installation of marine aquaria. In the 

 south-west corner of the building a suite of living apartments 

 has been provided for an officer of the Museum. 



HISTORY OF THE HUSEUM 



The history of the Museum, as published in a series of articles 

 in the Bulletin, is particularly incomplete for the period from 

 1826, when the Museum was maintained by the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of South Carolina in a building on Chalmers 

 St., to 1843, when it was located in the Medical College on 

 Queen St., as shown by a quotation from the catalog of that 

 year published by Mr. W. G. Mazyck.* The wording of this 

 reference led Mr. Mazyck to suppose that the Museum had been 

 recently transferred to the Medical College. That this was not 

 the case is shown by the following statement contained in an 

 advertisement of the Medical College published in 1828. ^ 



The Student of Anatomy and Natural History, has facihties afforded him, 

 which are equalled by few, and surpassed by no similar institution in our country. 

 In addition to the Anatomical preparations and Chemical Apparatus received last 

 year from Europe, the Chalmers-Street Museum, containing a large collection of 

 Minerals, Shells, Birds, &c. has been removed to the college, where it will perma- 

 nently remain. 



That the Museum remained under the auspices of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society is rendered probable by the reference 



« Bull. Chas. Mus., Vol. 3, No. 6, Oct., 1907, p. 58 

 The Southern Literary Gazette, Vol. 1, Sept., 1828, p. 64. -^ 



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