The prize was a copy of Reed's Water Bird Guide. The contest 

 was close and Master George Howell was awarded as second prize 

 one of Mrs. Comstock's Field and School Bird Note Books. 



Section B will have a field trip to St. Andrew's Parish on Sat- 

 urday, March 28. All members of Section B who desire to go 

 should meet Miss Bragg at the toll gate of the New Bridge at 

 9.30 A. M. The return will be made in time for dinner. 



The Botany Class has started again. All the old members 

 have continued and half a dozen new ones have joined. The 

 object of the class is to study plants, both systematically and 

 structurally, but always for the purpose of learning to determine 

 the species. There are no popular botanies for this section of 

 the country and in consequence non-scientific people have hope- 

 lessly given up trying to learn the wild flowers. Furthermore, 

 the preparatory schools of the present day are devoting their 

 time so largely to physiological botany that, as a result, their 

 graduates know little or nothing of the practical determination 

 of species. The Museum hopes eventually to publish a popular 

 botany for South Carolina. Meanwhile, through the medium 

 of the Botany Class, it is showing people how to know the flowers 

 they see about them, teaching a certain amount of physiology 

 but laying particular stress on determination and relationship. 



The Class is open to all members of Section A. Meetings are 

 held on the first and third Mondays of each month at 4.30 p. m. 

 at the Museum, or at some designated locality suitable for botan- 

 izing. Meetings will always be at the Museum on rainy days. 



SCHOOL NOTES 



Three classes in nature study have been held at the Museum 

 during the month, respectively the first, second, and third grade 

 teachers in the public schools of the city. These classes are de- 

 signed to assist teachers in the use of the traveling exhibits which 

 the Museum circulates among the schools. The classes were 

 under the direction of Miss Louise FoUin, supervisor of primary 



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