or two leading localities in Georgia. The South Carolina por- 

 tion of the Piedmont collection will form a part of the state ex- 

 hibit which it is proposed soon to arrange. 



The United States Geological Survey has promised to cooper- 

 ate in this matter and the Southern Railway Company has also 

 promised to prepare an exhibit of minerals from various portions 

 of the territory traversed by its roads. In a short time it is hoped 

 that it will be possible to install the Piedmont collection as a 

 very interesting and important feature of the Charleston Museum. 



The carbon collection is already installed and for a few years 

 past has been one of the most interesting and instructive exhib- 

 its in the main hall of the Museum; it has been enlarged and added 

 to from year to year until now it may be considered exception- 

 ally complete of its kind. The latest additions recently brought 

 by the writer are to the second division of the collection repre- 

 senting the hydro-carbons, the division of oils, bitumens and 

 asphalts. Within a few months past specimens have been se- 

 cured illustrating two very important localities of these miner- 

 als, which are not frequently represented. Some of these are 

 from the great asphalt deposits of Kern County, California, 

 where the asphalt has risen through a great fissure or vein and 

 has flowed over the country, spreading like a glacier over an ex- 

 tensive area. Others are from the oil and bitumen deposits in 

 Oklahoma, and illustrate limestones and sandstones partly im- 

 pregnated with bitumen or semi-fluid asphalt. Additions have 

 also been made to the third division of the collection, the resins, 

 including fine examples of Baltic amber, and copal containing 

 insects imbedded in the transparent resin. These statements 

 will give some idea of the work which has been done and is still 

 in progress in this department of the Museum. Other plans for 

 a South Carolina special exhibit, and for an exhibit of gems and 

 precious and ornamental stones which it is hoped ere long to in- 

 stall, will be treated in a further article. 



Daniel S. Martin. 



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