European mosses, and a very perfect specimen of brain coral and 

 a collection of shells which were given to her by the late Pro- 

 fessor F. S. Holmes. 



Miss Catherine Ravenel has given the Museum some additional 

 shells from the collection of the late Dr. Edmund Ravenel, to- 

 gether with a copy of his catalog, published in 1874. 



A small collection of very beautiful foreign shells has been 

 presented by Francis S. Hanckel, Jr. 



Among recent visitors to the Museum are Dr. F. H. H. Calhoun, 

 professor of geology and mineralogy at Clemson and curator of 

 the museum; Mr. A. S. Rowell, of Piedmont, S. C, who has made 

 extensive collections of Indian implements in the upper part of 

 the state; and Mr. and Mrs. George P. Englehart. Mr. Engle- 

 hart is assistant curator in the Children's Museum in Brooklyn. 



At the request of the Advertising Club the Museum will enter- 

 tain the business men of the city at an evening exhibition soon 

 after the holidays, when all the offices and workrooms as well as 

 the exhibition halls will be open to inspection and members of the 

 staff will demonstrate the work of each department. This plan 

 was first adopted when the Advertising Club inspected the Museum 

 last year, and it is a pleasure to know that it succeeded so well as 

 to invite repetition. 



Our readers will be interested to learn that since the publica- 

 tion in the October Bulletin of the account of the hurricane the 

 Museum has received a special appropriation from Council for 

 repair of the damage to the building. 



The Association of First Grade Teachers has invited Miss Bragg 

 to give them at their monthly meetings half-hour talks on nature 

 work to show how lessons adapted to local conditions and the 

 current season may be prepared. As nature work is not included 

 in the curriculum of the Charleston Schools this voluntary in- 

 terest of the teachers is especially gratifying. 



The Sunday News of November 26 contained an interesting 

 account of the effect of the August hurricane upon the bird life of 



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