Society, under the leadership of Miss Bragg. The society has 

 grown to a membership of nearly a hundred, and has proved an 

 important adjunct of the Museum in many ways. It has always 

 contributed largely to the biological survey and during the past 

 year paid for the new herbarium case and appropriated sixty dol- 

 lars from its treasury to defray the expense of caring for the mate- 

 rial it has collected for the Museum. 



Eleven members of Section B were graduated into Section A 

 at the November meeting. The Museum has reason to be proud 

 of the good record which these younger members of the society 

 have established, not merely in obtaining records of rare species, 

 but in developing scientific habits which should be of value through 

 life. 



At the various meetings of the society Miss Bragg has talked 

 on "Christmas week in the country," "Sea-gulls of Charleston Hiw- 

 bor," "Local ferns," "Silk worm culture," and "Marine shells of 

 South CaroUna." The director gave a series of demonstrations 

 of the structure of vertebrate animals before Section B, and spoke 

 to Section A of "Catesby as an ornithologist," and on "Inverte- 

 brates collected on the Thanksgiving Day field trip. " Mr. F. M. 

 Weston, Jr. talked on "Ornithological work of Wayne, Loomis, 

 and their contemporaries," "Breeding warblers of the coast re- 

 gion," and "Birds seen on the Thanksgiving Day fisld trip." 



The interest aroused by the lectures on early ornithologists in 

 South Carolina suggested the Audubon-Bachman loan exhibit, 

 which was opened with a special meeting, the program of which 

 is given below. 



SPECIAL EXHIBITS 



Audubon-Bachman Loan Exhibit. This was the first special 

 exhibit given in the new building and discovered an unexpected 

 wealth of material in Charleston relating to Audubon and Bach- 

 man, which was generously lent by the owners. A full catalog 

 of the exhibit was printed in the Bulletin for March. The regu- 

 lar March meeting of the Natural History Society marked the 

 opening of the exhibit, which continued for eight days and was 

 attended by over twelve hundred persons. The following was 

 the program of the meeting: 



Description of the exhibit, by Miss Laura M. Bragg. 



Life and work of Bachman, by Mrs. Paul M. Rea. 



Ornithological work of Audubon and Bachman, by Mr. 

 Herbert R. Sass. 



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