stitutions. The personnel was as follows : Mayor John P. Grace, 

 representing the City of Charleston, and Mrs. Grace; the Hon. 

 John F. Ficken, president of the board of trustees and president 

 of the Charleston Library Society, and Mrs. Ficken; the Hon. 

 W. St. Julien Jervey, chairman of the Museum Committee; Mr. 

 Paul M. Rea, director of the Museum, and Mrs. Rea; Miss Laura 

 M. Bragg, curator in the Museum; Mr. Henry P. Williams, 

 representing the Museum members, and Mrs. Williams; Miss 

 Annie L. Sloan, representing the Natural History Society; Mr. 

 Harrison Randolph, president of the College of Charleston, and 

 Mrs. Randolph; Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr., dean of the Medical 

 College of South Carolina, and Mrs. Wilson; the Hon. James 

 Simons, chairman of the board of public school commissioners, 

 and Mrs. Simons. 



The following were the chairmen of the various committees 

 to whose most efficient service the very marked success of the 

 reception was due: invitations, Mrs. Paul M. Rea; refreshments, 

 Miss Elizabeth Horlbeck; decorations, Mrs. B. A. Hagood; en- 

 tertainment, Miss Harriet Coffin and Mr. L. Wm. McGrath; 

 head usher, Mr. Ellison A. Williams; committee in charge of 

 reception. Miss Annie L. Sloan, Miss Laura M. Bragg. 



The history of the Museum since its foundation by the Charles- 

 ton Library Society in 1773 was reviewed by Director Rea in the 

 Bulletin for March. The present notice of the anniversary 

 would naturally have appeared in the April issue had not lack of 

 space prevented. 



LOCAL FAUNA 



Breeding Birds of Heron Island. — About fifty members of the 

 Natural History Society and their friends made a trip to Heron 

 Island near Secessionville, Saturday, May the third, on the yachts 

 Dolphin and Vadie. The party left the Yacht Club wharf about 

 3.30 P. M. and reached Heron Island in one hour. Owing to the 

 size of the party it was deemed advisable not to land everyone 

 as the herons would thereby be kept from their nests long enough 

 for the eggs to become chilled. Consequently only a few were 

 sent ashore to report on the number of nests, the kinds of herons, 

 and the condition of the trees planted by the Museum last fall. 



There were five species of heron found on the island this trip, 

 the Louisiana Heron {Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis) being by far 

 the commonest, numbering probably several hundred pairs. 

 The Little Blue Herons {Florida caerulea) came next in abundance 



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