A notebook has been opened for recording the Hfe history of 

 animals kept ahve at the Museum. This promises to yield much 

 information of interest. 



Substantial progress with the biological survey is hoped for 

 in the coming year. 



Publication 



The Bulletin has been published regularly during the year, 

 and completed five volumes with the December issue. A title- 

 page and index to the five volumes were published at this time. 



Through the generosity of a number of members, the Museum 

 has been enabled to undertake the publication of a series of re- 

 search "Contributions," which will be issued at irregular intervals 

 as opportunity offers. The first of the series will be a book on 

 the birds of South Carolina, by Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, our hon- 

 orary curator of birds. This work is now in type and will be 

 published early in 1910. 



To the newspapers of Charleston, the Museum is indebted for 

 strong editorial support, as well as for the freedom with which 

 their columns have been opened to notices of Museum activities 

 and to news items. 



Public Instruction 



The Charleston Natural History Society has been the chief 

 medium for the educational work of the Museum during the 

 year. The meetings have been devoted to discussions of field 

 work and informal talks on related subjects. In addition to the 

 bird study, which has hitherto been the chief work of the Society, 

 a survey of flowering plants was inaugurated in the spring by 

 Miss Van Hoevenberg, while in the autumn a study of trees was 

 made the leading subject under the direction of Miss Bragg. In 

 October a revised constitution was adopted and the Society was 

 divided into two sections, for older and younger members re- 



