NOTES PROM THE MUSEUH 



The Museum is open free to the public on week days from 10 

 till 6. Children unaccompanied by an adult are admitted only 

 on Saturdays. 



The annual Thanksgiving Day field trip of the Natural History 

 Society will consist this year of an excursion to Morris Island to 

 study beach shells. The party will go down by launch at 8.45 

 a. m. and will return to the city at 2 p. m. so as to be in time for 

 dinner. 



Section A of the Natural History Society will hold its December 

 meeting on Thursday the 7th at 5 p. m. and Section B will meet 

 on Thursday the 14th at the same hour. Both meetings will be 

 devoted to discussion of the results of field trips, followed by an 

 account of the Elk family. Ten members of Section B were 

 graduated at the last meeting into Section A and this is the best 

 time of the year for new members to join either section. , 



Recent accessions not previously acknowledged include a 

 series of asbestos specimens and products presented by the 

 Keasbey and Mattison Company through Wm. M. Bird & Com- 

 pany. These will be added to the specimens and photographs 

 obtained last spring from the factory of the General Asbestos and 

 Rubber Company in Charleston, and will make our asbestos 

 exhibit nearly complete. A large floor case for industrial ex- 

 hibits was completed during the summer in the Museum shop 

 and is now on the main floor. 



The two Duck Hawks received alive on October 11 from Dr. 

 J. A. Miles attracted considerable attention from the fact that 

 this species is the Peregrine Falcon of olden times, as well as 

 because it is rare in this state. One of these birds died on Octo- 

 ber 25 and the other on November 11 and both were prepared as 

 skins for the Museum collection by Mr. E. A. Hyer. These 

 hawks had been blown during a storm onto a vessel sailing off 



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