BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 9 CHARLESTON, S. C, APRIL, 1913 No. 4 

 THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY 



INTRODUCTION l."#^ 



The transformation of the department of geology and mineralogy from a small ., .^ .y^ir. 

 collection in a condition little short of chaotic to a fairly extensive and very rep- '*■"'?' Ai^**^ 

 resentative one in complete order is due to the devoted labors and generous gifts ^^J^lfrife 

 of Dr. Daniel Strobel Martin, honorary curator of the department. All of the 

 large projects with which Dr. Martin has been engaged are now either completed 

 or so well advanced that the time seems ripe for a general summary of his work. 

 This is given below as contained in a report recently made to the director of the 

 Museum. By special request, it includes a summary of Dr. Martin's extensive 

 gifts to the Museum. 



P. M. Rea. 



General Work 



My first work for the department of geology and mineralogy 

 consisted in gathering together and arranging the old material 

 belonging to the Museum and in devising a system of records 

 to preserve the history of the specimens. The lack of such a 

 system in the past had resulted in the loss of the history, and 

 consequently of the value of much of the material. Fortunately, 

 the important Shepard Collection of phosphates and the Russian 

 collection of minerals from the Ural were for the most part fully 

 labeled and capable of being identified by means of the manuscript 

 catalogs still preserved. Beyond these, however, a large propor- 

 tion of the minerals and fossils were not in such shape that their 

 localities and sources could be recorded. Under my direction 

 all the specimens in these departments were gone over, cleaned, 

 and as far as possible identified, but a considerable residuum of 

 material of undetermined and uncertain source was left. This 



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