AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS 



The policy of co-ordinating the work of the Museum with that 

 of other institutions doing scientific work is bearing abundant 

 fruit. The Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 

 which fostered the Museum from 1827 to 1850, has again been 

 affiliated with it since 1911, when arrangements were made for 

 its department of physiology and embryology to use the labora- 

 tories, classrooms, and collections of the Museum. The Museum 

 has had the pleasure of co-operating with the Medical College in 

 securing funds for a new college building to be built near both the 

 Roper Hospital and the Museum. We congratulate our sister 

 institution on its remarkable development in the past eight months 

 and we look forward to mutually helpful co-operation in the future. 



Another affiliated institution, the College of Charleston, is 

 anticipating new activities in the coming year. It has announced 

 a special course preparatory to medicine and consisting for the 

 present of one year of biology, chemistry, physics, and a modern 

 language. This course is expected soon to be extended to two 

 years. It will utilize the collections of the Museum to a larger 

 degree than in the past. 



P. M. Rea. 



LOCAL FAUNA 



The Stilt Sandpiper in South Carolina. — During the summer of 

 1912, while spending a few weeks on Pawley's Island, twenty 

 miles from Georgetown, S. C, my brother and I made several 

 interesting observations; but saw nothing of importance until 

 the afternoon of August 22, when, while shooting on the back 

 beach at the center of the Island my cousin, Mr. C. P. Webber, 

 killed a Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus) . The bird 

 is a female in winter plumage. When shot it was flying low over 

 the bushes in a flock of about twenty Yellowlegs. The spot 

 where the bird was killed is about two hundred yards from our 

 house. Mr. A. T. Wayne, in his "Birds of South Carolina," 

 says of the Stilt Sandpiper : ' ' This rare species is included on the 



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