to state that the appropriation for maintenance will barely suf- 

 fice to meet the necessary fixed expenses; that the roof requires 

 repairs for which no money is available, that the printing shop 

 has already been closed, and that the Museum is without funds 

 to run the carpenter shop beyond the present month or to make 

 any other improvements whatever. 



RECENT ACCESSIONS 



Dr. Martin has added to his many gifts to the geological de- 

 partment a very handsome and interesting series of gems and 

 gem minerals which will soon to placed on exhibition. 



Birds recently received include the Red-throated Loon re- 

 corded by Mr. Caspar Chisolm in this issue. Fox Sparrows taken 

 in the city during the cold wave in January by Miss Mabel Pol- 

 litzer and Mr. F. S. Hanckel, Jr. Mr. Hanckel also presented 

 heads of the Shoveller and Gadwall ducks. Mr. F. S. Hanckel 

 presented specimens of the Gadwall, Widgeon, and Blue-winged 

 Teal taken at the Bugbee Hunting Club on Ashepoo River. 

 For the preparation of these as skins the Museum is indebted 

 to Messrs. Caspar Chisolm and E. A. Hyer. Master C. P. 

 Mitchell presented a grass parrot of an undetermined species. 



Other recent accessions include a series of North Carolina 

 garnets, some in the matrix of mica schist and one cut as a gem, 

 presented by Mr. Samuel G. Stoney, Jr. Specimens of carbo- 

 rundum and coke were received from Mr. J. C. Reeves, shark 

 jaws from McLeod Dickinson, the shell of a yellow-bellied Terra- 

 pin from Julian Mitchell, Jr., a Florida Free-tailed Bat from J. 

 Douglas Smith, and a pair of extraordinarily large stone crab 

 claws from Mrs. Harriette Kershaw Leiding. Miss Mabel 

 PoUitzer gave a number of invertebrates collected at the Isle 

 of Palms. The living snake collection was increased by a Black 

 Snake taken in St. Andrews Parish by John Chisolm and May- 

 nard Robertson, and by a very handsome specimen of the Red- 

 bellied Snake collected by Mr. F. M. Weston, Jr., and described 



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