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THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 7 CHARLESTON, S. C, JANUARY, 1911 No. 1 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUH 

 FOR THE YEAR 1910 



The long-delayed appearance of the first of a series of research 

 pubUcations is the principal event of the year 1910. Less pro- 

 gress has been made toward installation of exhibition collections 

 than was hoped for, but in the closing months of the year a much 

 closer affiliation of the Museum with the business organizations 

 of the city has been attained, and the prospect for larger financial 

 support and increased public interest must be considered distinctly 

 encouraging. 



SCOPE OF THE MUSEUM 



The long and honorable history of the Museum affords an ex- 

 tremely interesting study of the relation of the institution to the 

 community. Beginning as a supplementary feature of a library 

 society whose object was the promotion of all forms of culture 

 among its selected membership, the Museum became the primary 

 interest of a literary and philosophical society which secured for 

 it a generous measure of municipal and state financial assistance 

 and made it, about the year 1825, the center of a popular interest 

 such as has seldom been aroused. Unfortunately popular favor is 

 not always constant, and the Museum became for some years an 

 adjunct of a medical college. In 1850 it entered upon more than 

 a half-century of development as a part of the College of Charles- 



es. 



