expense incident to the equipment and maintenance of their work, 

 tlius at the same time extending the scope and influence of the 

 Museum and increasing its efficiency. 



ADMINISTRATION 



The increased appropriation for maintenance made possible 

 certain changes in the staff which were quite necessary for the 

 proper administration of the Museum. Miss Laura M. Bragg was 

 advanced from hbrarian to be curator of books and pubUc in- 

 struction, and Miss Barbara K. Bragg was added to the staff as 

 assistant in the Ubrary. This change associates Miss Bragg offi- 

 cially with the educational work which she has conducted with 

 marked success since her first connection with the Museum, and 

 allows her to give time to the organization of special exhibits 

 and the installation of the collections. At the same time it 

 greatly increases the efficiency of the library and provides a much- 

 needed additional attendant for supervision of the exhibition hall 

 and reading room. 



Miss Laura L. Weeks was regularly appointed as secretary to 

 the director, giving half her time to this work and half to her 

 position as assistant secretary of the American Association of Mu- 

 seums. A general reorganization of the administrative system 

 of the director's office has been made which will result in much 

 , economy of time and accuracy of records. A system of cost 

 accounting has been perfected which enables extremely close 

 supervision of expenditures and inspires confidence in the ability 

 of the Museum to get the maximum value from the money it 

 expends. 



Mr. Edward R. Memminger was appointed honorary curator 

 of fungi, and spent the greater part of two months revising the 

 fungi of the Henry W. Ravenel herbarium. Nearly nine hundred 

 South Carolina species were entered in the biological survey re- 

 cords as a result of this work. 



Mr. L. Wm. McGrath has been appointed assistant in zoology. 

 The most serious administrative problem at present concerns 

 the cost of installation. Since funds for this purpose become 

 available only in small sums, it is impossible to contract for a 

 large number of cases at one time. It has, moreover, been abun- 

 dantly demonstrated that cases of all types can be most successfully 

 built in our own shop. Extreme difficulty has, however, been 

 met in the effort to get mill work of good quality and reasonable 

 price, while in working up and assembling material a large in- 



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