NOTES FROn THE MUSEUH 



The Museum is open free to the public on week days from 10 

 to 6. Children unaccompanied by an adult are admitted only 

 on Saturdays. 



Since September the News and Courier has been devoting a 

 column in its Monday morning issue to News Notes From the 

 Museum. This affords a convenient means of keeping the pub- 

 lic in touch with new work and has been favorably commented 

 on by many of our friends. 



Mr. E. R. Memminger, honorary curator of fungi, has re- 

 turned to the city and plans to continue his work on the herba- 

 rium during the winter. Professor D. S. Martin, honorary cu- 

 rator of geology, has been working at the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences during the summer and expects to return to 

 Charleston in December to take up his winter work. 



The October number of the Auk contains a note by Julian 

 Mitchell, Jr. of the Natural History Society regarding the first 

 specimen of the pigeon hawk taken in South Carolina in the winter. 



Mollie, the pet member of the Museum's collection of living 

 snakes acquired considerable notoriety by escaping from a mem- 

 ber of the staff who was exercising her on the front lawn. Mollie 

 is a six-foot pine snake from Florida, presented to the Museum 

 in April, 1908, by Mr. Henry P. Williams. The beauty of her 

 coloring and the gentleness of her disposition have made her a 

 favorite with our visitors, and her good health during the past 

 four years may be attributed largely to the fact that she has 

 been taken out occasionally for a run in the grass in the early 

 morning dew. There was much delight when she reappeared 

 after an absence of five days. 



The Natural History Society has devoted special attention 

 this fall to a study of local moths and butterflies, and some of the 



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