teacher would come with them. One little fellow said he was go- 

 ing to ask his teacher to come and a few days later appeared with 

 her, triumphantly announcing, "Here she is". But another 

 small lad was less successful. His teacher "didn 't like worms", he 

 volunteered dejectedly. 



Great as was the attention devoted to the children during the 

 exhibit adults were by no means neglected. Special public lec- 

 tures were arranged for them and constant docent attendance 

 suppUed. The scheduled lectures during the last two weeks of 

 the exhibit numbered twenty-eight. These lectures were de- 

 Uvered in the main hall where the exhibit was held, the chairs being 

 surrounded on three sides by the exhibition cases and the rearing 

 stands for the caterpillars. On the wall in front of the audience 

 hung a series of large charts illustrating the life-history and ana- 

 tomy of both healthy and diseased silkworms. Below stood a 

 long case containing an exhibit of native silkworms, showing the 

 stages in their metamorphosis. Here also was shown, by speci- 

 mens, colored illustrations, and machinery, a complete history of 

 the development of silk from the laying of the eggs by the silk 

 moth to the raw silk in "hanks" ready for weaving. The co- 

 coons raised during the present exhibit will afford raw material 

 for the completion of a permanent exhibit, which will illustrate 

 manufacturing processes and show the quality of fabric which 

 may be made from silkworms raised in South Carolina on ItaHan 

 white mulberry trees. The cocoons have already been pronounced 

 of superior quality, weight, and size. The large rearing stands 

 on which the caterpillars were raised became things of beauty as 

 they gradually filled with these brilliant yellow and snowy white 

 cocoons. 



Never, we believe, has a museum exhibited a more comprehen- 

 sive silk culture than the present one, which has not only shown 

 all the stages in the life of the silkworm from the egg on through 

 the caterpillar, chrysalis, and moth back to the egg again, illus- 

 trating as well the method of reeling silk, but has done all this ac- 

 cording to the most modern and approved practises of scientific 



silk producers. 



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