Personal reminiscences of Bachman, by Rev. C. S. Vedder. 

 Erection of the Audubon monument in New York, by 

 Dr. D. S. Martin. 



At the close of the meeting Mr. John Bennett announced his 

 recovery of the date of the origin of the Museum — March, 1773. 



Silk Culture Exhibit. Through the kindness of Miss Hen- 

 rietta A. Kelly the Museum was able to make a special exhibit 

 of silk culture on an unusually large scale for five weeks in April 

 and May. Miss Kelly imported the eggs from Italy, furnished 

 the equipment, and reared the worms through the early moults. 

 Miss Bragg planned and conducted the exhibit and delivered 

 twenty-eight stated lectures. The care of the culture and hand- 

 ling the large number of visitors was a severe strain upon the 

 small staff of the museum and the exhibit succeeded only through 

 their devotion. 



In the five weeks of the exhibit the attendance was nearly four 

 thousand, including over twelve hundred school children who 

 came with their teachers, by appointment, in school hours. Dur- 

 ing most of this time all stages from the caterpillar to the finished 

 cocoon were included in the exhibit. 



Public School Work. With the increase of the installation 

 the Museum will be able gradually to resume and extend the work 

 with visiting classes from the public schools which was already 

 inaugurated in the old building. Eighty-five classes came with 

 their teachers during the year, twenty-three during the Audubon- 

 Bachman exhibit and forty-seven during the silk culture exhibit. 



In order to render the best service to the schools, however, 

 it is necessary that the Museum have traveling exhibits which 

 can be sent to the schoolroom and used to supplement the regu- 

 lar studies. The curator of public instruction is now co-opera- 

 ting with the superintendent of schools with a view to planning 

 such exhibits. This work affords a field for efficient service 

 which the Museum hopes to fill. 



The curator has been invited by the First Grade Teachers As- 

 sociation to give a course of lectures at their meetings which will 

 lay out a series of nature study lessons suitable for the first grade 

 in Charleston from monthto month. This is a purely voluntary 

 movement on the part of the teachers and the course given 

 will not form a part of the curriculum, but can be used in un- 

 occupied time. It is, however, a first step toward elementary 

 science in the schools.. 



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