The past four years have demonstrated the importance of the 

 Museum, its unique position among institutions of its kind 

 throughout the country, and its power to interest the people of 

 Charleston. To enable it to realize at once the educational 

 and economic possibilities which are within its reach, a gener- 

 ous rallying of Charleston people to the task of providing funds 

 for installation is necessary. 



Administration 



During the year gratifying progress has been made in the 

 systematic re-organization of the work of the Museum and in 

 the completion of the records, resulting in greatly increased 

 efficiency of administrative methods. At the same time the 

 necessity of requiring of the staff many duties of a miscellaneous 

 character has retarded progress in the technical work for which 

 they were employed. Thus, much of the time of one assistant 

 has been required for the duties of acting librarian, while that 

 of another has been largely occupied with construction. These 

 conditions are now greatly improved, although a wide variety 

 of legitimate work will always confront a small staff in so large 

 an institution. 



Work has been retarded during the latter part of the year by 

 the resignation of Mr. F. W. Wamsley in September, and Mr. 

 H. R. Sass in October. Mr. Sass' place was temporarily taken 

 by Mr. F. M. Weston, Jr. until the end of the year. In the re-or- 

 ganization of the staff, necessitated by these changes, a librarian 

 will be employed to give to the library the care it has long needed 

 and to assist in the educational work. 



With the completion of the main exhibition hall the work of 

 the Museum will to a large extent change from the stock-taking 

 process which has occupied most of the time of the staff for sev- 

 eral years, to case-construction and the preparation and instal- 

 lation of collections. For this work a printing outfit is indis- 



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