When it is remembered that this account is the sole reliance of 

 the Museum for improvements of all kinds not provided for by 

 special funds, the reason for the slow and halting progress in in- 

 staUing the collections is obvious. It is also evident that the wel- 

 fare of the Museum requires a larger support from public-spirited 

 citizens. The small number of members is not to be attributed 

 to lack of interest but rather to the inability of the director to 

 take sufficient time from his work in the Museum building to per- 

 sonally solicit contributions. 



Special accounts have been more varied than heretofore and 

 have been a large factor in the success of the year's work. Fore- 

 most among these is the sum of $2200 appropriated by the Char- 

 leston Advertising Club, one-half for moving and installing sci- 

 entific exhibits, and one-half for collecting and installing indus- 

 trial exhibits. Coming at a time when the prospect of installa- 

 tion was particularly discouraging, this support made possible the 

 construction of new cases of approved dasign for the bison and the 

 elk groups, for the moving of the Manigault osteological collec- 

 tion and other specimens from the old building, and for the con- 

 struction of a long case for industrial exhibits, leaving a bal- 

 ance sufficient to install a series of exhibits of local industries. 

 This fund was raised by the sale of advertising buttons, in which 

 two teams competed for the credit of selling the larger number. 

 The campaign brought the Museum prominently before the peo- 

 ple and attracted the interest of business men. It was a long step 

 toward the aim of the Museum to be an expression point of com- 

 munity activity. 



The Charleston Natural History Society, the medium through 

 which a part of the educational work and the biological survey 

 is conducted, has paid for a case for the general herbarium, and 

 at its December meeting appropriated $60 for equipment and ex- 

 penses of collecting and preserving the specimens which it con- 

 tributes to the Museum. 



A special appropriation of $300 was made by City Council for 

 repair of the damage sustained by the building in the hurricane 

 of August 27-28. 



The City Art Commission defrayed the cost of office equipment 

 and stationery for the municipal catalog of art which the Museum 

 has undertaksn to maintain for the Commission. 



1 hree schools and colleges — the College of Charleston, the Med- 

 ical College of South Carolina, and Ashley Hall — have used the 

 laboratories and classroom of the Museum and have defrayed the 



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