museums of art, history, and science, which has been pubhshed 

 by the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. The correspondence 

 incidental to the preparation of this volume has brought the 

 Charleston Museum into advantageous relations with a large 

 number of museums in both North and South America. 



PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 



This department has been under the direction of Miss Bragg, 

 and the Natural History Society has continued to serve as the 

 chief medium of activity. The older section has worked chiefly 

 on trees, and the younger section on a variety of natural history 

 subjects. The membership has increased to a point where it is 

 difficult to arrange excursions and to carry on personal instruc- 

 tion in the field to the same extent as in the past. Furthermore 

 the installation of the collections will confine the staff more closely 

 to the Museum but at the same time open much wider oppor- 

 tunities for educational work. 



The close association of the work of this department with the 

 library, which has arisen by force of circumstances, has proved 

 so satisfactory that an effort to continue it will be made. 



In addition to its work with the Natural History Society, this 

 department has provided lectures and demonstrations for classes 

 from the training school of the South Carolina Kindergarten Asso- 

 ciation, the Memminger Normal School, Ashley Hall, the Bennett 

 School, and Miss Coralie Nathan's Idndergarten. Demonstra- 

 tions of the equipment and work of the Museum have been given 

 to the Charleston Advertising Club, Stokes' Business College, 

 and a number of groups of business men. 



Paul M. Rea, Director. 



