NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



The winter work of the Natural History Society, will begin with 

 the meetings which will be held at the Museum at five o'clock on 

 November 2 (Section A) and November 9 (Section B). Miss 

 Bragg will speak to Section A on the Marine Shells of South Caro- 

 hna, and arrangements will be made for the annual Thanksgiving 

 Day field trip. Miss Bragg's talk will be the first of a series on 

 the exhibits now being installed in the Museum. The Elk Family 

 will be the subject of the December meeting and Bison and their 

 Distribution will be discussed in January. Interesting bird and 

 plant records will continue to be presented, as usual. 



Section B meetings will follow in general the plans laid down 

 for Section A. Parallel work will include a study of the hawk 

 family of birds. At the November meeting Mr. Rhett Chambei-- 

 lain will read a paper upon the Duck Hawk. 



RECENT ACCESSIONS 



Lack of space this month prevents more than brief mention of 

 several important gifts to the Museum including a series of five 

 framed Audubon prints from the 1860 reprint of his Birds of 

 America, elephant foho edition, presented by Mr. Henry S. Holmes. 

 Mr. J. F. McGrath presented the jaw-bones of a baleen whale. 

 Two live Duck Hawks, given by Dr. J. Allen Miles, and a large 

 Timber Rattlesnake, the gift of Dr. T. P. Whaley, are attracting 

 daily visitors. 



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