described in the report for that year, no active work has been 

 attempted. Opportunities for collecting exist in the State, 

 which would almost certainly yield interesting material, but the 

 staff is entirely inadequate for such work at present. 



Art 



Active work in this department has been prevented by lack 

 of available space, but in May an exhibition of Mr. Charles 

 Henry White's etchings of Charleston was arranged by the hon- 

 orary curator, Mr. N. W. Stephenson, who delivered a lecture 

 on this occasion on "The Art of Illustration." 



In the new building it is hoped that more frequent exhibits 

 and lectures will be possible, and the Director desires to be able 

 to begin the purchase of prints, etc. for educational and exhi- 

 bition purposes. 



Library 



The developement of the Museum library has been reviewed 

 in previous annual reports and was described in the October 

 and November issues of the Bulletin of the Museum for 1908, 

 in connection with the installation of the library in the new 

 building and the formal opening of the public reading room on 

 October 31st. The importance of the library is well shown by 

 the fact that it was moved simultaneously with the offices of 

 the staff and that it was the first department installed in the 

 new building. 



The extension of the facilities of the library to the public 

 through a public reading room is the realization of a long-cher- 

 ished desire of the Director and is especially notable because 

 there is no free public library in the city. The formal opening 

 was the occasion of a silver tea, attended by more than five 

 hundred people and resulting in a profit of over fifty dollars for 

 the benefit of further equipment. 



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