coast region. Visitors to the Museum during the past month 

 have been interested in a mounted group of a Golden Eagle and 

 a Wild Turkey. This is one of the only two Golden Eagles taken 

 on the coast and was shot in St. Andrew's Parish after having 

 killed the turkey which is mounted with it. 



NOTES FROM THE MUSEUH 



At a meeting of the Trustees on Friday, May I'ith, Mr. Edward 

 R. Memminger was elected Honorary Curator of Fungi. Mr. 

 Memminger has been a student of the botany of the southeast 

 since 1882, devoting special attention to the higher fungi. Dur- 

 ing the past three months he has rearranged the Ravenel Her- 

 barium and added to the biological survey more than a thousand 

 records for fungi, based upon the work of the earlier botanists. 

 This work will be continued with a view to cataloging all the 

 fungi known to occur in this state. 



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

 partment, is engaged in visiting museums in Alabama, Georgia, 

 and Florida in the interest of the Piedmont collection of minerals. 

 A series of specimens for this collection has recently been received 

 from Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologist of North CaroHna, 

 and it is hoped that the present year may see the greater part 

 of the material necessary for this collection brought together at 

 the Museum. 



Since Miss Bragg 's article on Silk Culture, in this issue, was 

 set in type we have received from Mr. John Bennett the follow- 

 ing further note, taken from the South-Carolina Gazette, and 

 Country Journal of October 12, 1773: ''London News:. .July 26:. . 

 It is said that a considerable number of French Refugees, well 

 skilled in the management of silk-worms, and making of wines, 

 have within these few days engaged themselves on very advan- 

 tageous terms to go to New- York and South-Carolina, where 

 the cultivation of these two lucrative branches of business is 

 carrying on with great spirit." 



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