BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 9 CHARLESTON, S. C, FEBRUARY, 1913 No. 2 



RECENT PROGRESS ON THE MINERAL COLLECTIONS 



The department of mineralogy and geology has in view and in 

 preparation several important special exhibits in addition to its 

 general collections. Among these are two valuable collections 

 which have been in the possession of the Museum for many years, 

 and were partly exhibited in the old building, at the College of 

 Charleston, but have not yet been installed for display in the 

 present building. One of these is what has been known as the 

 Russian collec!"ion. an exhibit fiom the Ural mountains and other 

 important mining regions in the Russii^n empirs; ^'?d 'he n:her 

 18 the c(:lleci'i;m of puoL-phate minerals from a number of locali- 

 ties in Europe and other parts of the world, which was gathered 

 by Dr. C. U. Shepard, now of Summerville, and presented by 

 him to the Museum. His object is to bring together a repre- 

 sentation of all the different formations in which phosphate 

 rocks and minerals occur for comparison with the product in 

 South Carolina. These two important collections it is hoped 

 will soon be placed on exhibition. 



Two other special collections are those which have been men- 

 tioned previously in the Bulletin under the name of the Pied- 

 mont collection and the carbon collection. The plan of the 



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