NOTES FROM THE MUSEUH 



Miss Laura M. Bragg, who has served as librarian of the Museum 

 since September, 1909, has been appointed Curator of Books and 

 Public Instruction, and Miss Barbara K. Bragg has joined the 

 staff as assistant in the library. Miss Laura L. Weeks, who has 

 assisted Professor Rea in the work of the American Association of 

 Museums, has been appointed Secretary to the Director. 



Dr. Daniel S. Martin, honorary curator in the geological depart- 

 ment, has spent February and March at the Museum working up 

 the accessions of the past year and preparing mineralogical ex- 

 hibits. 



The Museum has secured the assistance of Mr. Ed. R. Memmin- 

 ger in a revision of the Henry W. Ravenel herbarium and the 

 preparation of a catalog of the fungi of South Carolina. 



Dr. Ezra Brainerd recently visited the Museum and re-examined 

 the violets of the ElUott herbarium. Dr. Brainerd 's study of these 

 specimens on former visits has resulted in important changes in 

 the nomenclature of the violets. 



Recent gifts to the library include vols. 1-4 of Holbrook's Her- 

 petology, from Miss Henrietta A. Kelly; miscellaneous plates and 

 text signatures of Holbrook's Ichthyology, from Mrs. C. C. Pinck- 

 ney; and vols. 1-2 of the text of Audubon and Bachman's Vivi- 

 parous Quadrupeds of North America, from Dr. Charles W. Kol- 

 lock. Dr. Kollock also presented to the Museum the first fascicle 

 of Ravenel's Fungi Carohniani exsiccati, a very rare and impor- 

 tant collection of special value at this time in connection with Mr, 

 Memminger's work referred to above. 



The large attendance at the Audubon-Bachman exhibit augurs 

 well for public interest in the completion of other exhibits. Among 

 the visitors were Miss M. Eliza Audubon and Mrs. D. T. Tyter; 

 granddaughters of John James Audubon and daughters of Victor 

 Audubon. 



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