NOTES FROn THE MUSEUH 



The Museum has received from Miss Maria H. Gibbes framed 

 copies of the invitation sent to Professor Lewis R. Gibbes to at- 

 tend the opening of the Museum at the College of Charleston in 

 1852, and of the invitation sent to Miss Gibbes on the occasion 

 of the opening of the Museum library in its present building in 

 1908. Miss Gibbes has also presented a number of publications 

 of Professor Gibbes, which were not in the Museum Hbrary. 



Nearly all of the snakes of the Live Snake Collection have 

 survived the winter and are in good condition. New acquisitions 

 are the Banded Water Snake (Tropidonotus fasciatus), a common 

 species not before represented in the collection; and the Black- 

 snake (Zamenis constrictor). Both were taken near Charleston. 



The Museum has recently commenced a survey of the amphi- 

 bians and lizards of this vicinity. Specimens of the following 

 species have been brought to the Museum and frequently kept 

 alive there: Dwarf Salamander (Manculus quadndigitatiis) , 

 Mole Salamander {Amhlystoma talpoideum), Ditch Eel (Am- 

 phiuma means), Southern Tree Frog {Hijla squirella), Swamp Tree 

 Frog (Chorophilus nigritus), Green Tree Frog {Hyla cinerea), 

 Bullfrog {Rana cateshiana). Leopard Frog {Rana pipiens), Ameriy 

 can Toad (Bufo americanus), Red-headed Scorpion (Eumeces quin- 

 quelineatus), Six-lined Lizard (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus), Ground 

 Lizard (Li/gosoma laterale), Green Lizard (Anolis carolinensis), 

 Glass ''Snake" (Ophisaurus ventralis), and various tadpoles not 

 yet identified. With one exception these specimens have been 

 collected by the boys of Section B of the Natural History 

 Society. 



Dr. Daniel S. Martin, honorary curator of the geological de- 

 partment, is now visiting a number of southern museums in the 

 interest of the special Piedmont collection of minerals, the plans 

 for which have already been described in the Bulletin. Dr. Mar- 

 tin has completed the revision and cataloging of the mineral 



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