THE MUSEUM 



OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



In Chalmer'a Street, (near the City Square,) 



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>ONSISTING of an extensive collection of 

 Beasts, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Warlike 



Arms, Dresses, and other CURIOSITIES — among 

 which are: 



The HEAD of a New Zealand Chief 



An Egyptian Mummy (a child) 



The Great White Bear of Greenland 



The Black and the Red Wolves of South Carolina 



The South African Lion 



The Duck Bill'd Platypus from New Holland 



The Bones of an Ostrich as large as those of a 

 Horse 



The Boa Constrictor or Anaconda Snake, 25 feet 

 long 



The Gramphus Whale, 20 feet long 



800 Birds, 70 Beasts, 200 Fishes 



4000 Specimens of Minerals. 



Shoes of the Chinese Ladies, 4 inches long 



The Saw Fish Saw 4 J feet in length 



A large collection of views of the Pubhc Build- 

 ings, &c. in Europe and 



A Fine Electrical Machine 



The whole elegantly arranged in glass cases, 



open every day from 9 o'clock, and brilliantly 



illuminated every evening, with occasionally a 



Band of Music. 



(^'Admission 25 cents. Season tickets $1.; 



Children half price. f Jan. 6 



The above is the second oldest accession Ust of the Museum 

 collections yet discovered. 



This, too, from the Charleston Courier of January 23 of the 

 same year is interesting if not quite so valuable. 



MUSEUM 



ISITORS are requested not to touch any of the 

 Animals on the floor of the Museum, as these 

 Animals are newly put up and not dried ; every thumb 

 or finger making an impression on the stuffed skin, 

 injurious to its natural appearance. 



W. G. Mazyck. 



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