teachers with their classes as well as by many school children 

 unaccompanied by a teacher. 



Mr. H. A. Lunz has given another alligator nearly four feet 

 long. 



Master Ross Vaughan has contributed largely to the attract- 

 iveness of the snake room this year, the Coral Snake, King Snake, 

 Black Snake, Banded Water Snake and one Keeled-scaled Green 

 Snake being his gifts. The other green snake now in the col- 

 lection was presented by Master Allen Miles. Other fine snakes 

 recently received are a young Diamond-backed Rattlesnake from 

 Mr. F. C. Ford of Summerville; a Water Moccasin from Mr. 

 John Randolph, collected on the Isle of Palms; and a very fine 

 large Coachwhip Snake presented by Miss Minnie Coffin, taken 

 on Young's Island. 



LOCAL FLORA 



Mr. E. R. Memminger has recently presented to the Museum 

 a small collection of pressed plants gathered at Beaufort, S. C, 

 and at the Charleston Navy Yard. 



Pressed plants collected at Barnwell, S. C, and near Darling- 

 ton have been received from Mrs. Thomas Frost. 



Miss Emma Gibbes has completed the work of transferring 

 to the local survey records the data of South Carolina specimens 

 in the collection of the late Professor Lewis R. Gibbes, and is 

 now kindly assisting with the plant survey records. 



Miss Frances Dill has also done valuable work on the plant 

 survey records. 



About three hundred plants have been mounted by members 

 of the Natural History Society and added to the herbarium. 



Miss Bragg has been collecting extensively about Charleston 

 and also in the neighborhood of Chicora Wood, on the Pee Dee, 

 the home of Mrs. J. J. Pringle. As a result a large amount of 

 local material is now ready for the herbarium. 



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