Survey cards have been prepared under Miss Bragg 's direction 

 for all plants in the Museum herbaria, exclusive of the Elliott 

 herbarium, and of 215 specimens of cryptogams. 



Miss Emma Gibbes has rendered valuable volunteer service 

 by preparing survey cards for all published or otherwise available 

 records of the collection of her father, Professor Lewis R. Gibbes. 

 Miss Elizabeth P. Ravenel and Miss Frances Dill have also acted 

 as volunteer assistants in preparing survey cards. 



It is of interest to note that the number of species already re- 

 corded in the survey exceeds those cataloged by Dr. Bachman for 

 the vicinity of Charleston. 



PUBLICATION 



The ninth volume of the Bulletin, comprising seventy-two 

 pages, was completed in 1913. Among the longer articles con- 

 tained in this volume mention may be made of the annual report 

 of the director in January number; a review of the history of the 

 Muesum in the special anniversary number for March; Dr. Mar- 

 tin 's report in the April number, summarizing the progress of the 

 geological department during his curatorship ; and Dr. Barnhart 's 

 account, in the December number, of the life and work of Otto 

 Kuntze. 



Mr. Wilham G. Mazyck's Catalog of MoUusca of South Car- 

 olina was published in June as the second number in the Con- 

 tributions FROM THE Charleston Museum. This series is 

 the medium for publication of the research work of the Museum 

 and is in many ways one of its most important activities. It 

 would be greatly to our advantage in many ways if funds could 

 be secured for the more frequent issue of the Contributions. 



The director has for years contemplated a third series of pub- 

 lications comprising popular guides to the fauna and flora of 

 South Carolina. The need of such books is very great, for there 

 can be little popular interest in natural history until there are 

 simple illustrated manuals describing the animals and plants of 

 our own section. There are many such books for the north and 

 even the west, but almost none for the south. Their prepara- 

 tion must follow such serious studies as we print in the Contri- 

 butions, and the publication of the Catalog of Mollusca affords 

 an opportunity for the initiation of this third series, which com- 

 pletes the scheme of publications now contemplated. 



Mr. Mazyck 's catalog is a purely technical list, but it gives us 



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