GEOLOGY 



Dr. Daniel S. Martin, honorary curator of this department, 

 spent two months in accessioning material given by himself and 

 others. Cards were completed and filed for 517 rocks and min- 

 erals and 500 fossils. Special mention should be made of a hand- 

 some collection of minerals presented by Mr. F. P. Graves of Doe 

 Run, Mo., which is not included in the statistics for the year 

 because not yet cataloged by Dr. Martin. 



An unusually complete and instructive carbon collection was 

 prepared for exhibition early in the year. The series includes 

 all the intermediate stages between sphagnum moss and wood 

 through peat and coals to jet and graphite, with subsidiary se- 

 ries of the mineral waxes and fossil resins. Other equally in- 

 teresting and instructive exhibits are ready for installation as 

 soon as cases can be prepared. 



CONCHOLOGY 



In preparation for installation of a local shell exhibit, a cat- 

 alog of the MoUusca of South Carolina has been prepared by Mr. 

 WiUiam G. Mazyck, honorary curator of the department. In at- 

 tempting to bring together local specimens for this exhibit it is 

 significant of the difference between the old and new view-points 

 that among several thousand shells no more local specimens have 

 been found than can be collected in a week on the sea beaches. 

 As in all other departments of the Museum the present pohcy 

 will be to make the collections work outward from local material 

 to selected and instructive foreign specimens. 



This department is indebted to Miss Elizabeth M. Klinck, as 

 well as to the honorary curator, for much tedious sorting and re- 

 arrangement of specimens. 



ORNITHOLOGY 



The collection of local birds has been temporarily installed in 

 a case built for an agricultural exhibit; and an exliibit of local 



