of this subject both illuminating and stimulating. 



The scope of these papers, which describe so wide a variety of 

 highly organized museum activities, will be a revelation to those 

 who retain the idea of a museum as nothing but a dead circus. 



P. M. Rea. 



NOTES FROM THE MUSEUH 



The Museum is open free to the public on week days from 10 

 to 6; children unaccompanied by an adult are admitted only on 

 Saturday. 



Nearly every member of the Museum staff has spent some time 

 during the summer in the study of other museums. Miss Bragg 

 devoted much of her vacation to botanizing in the vicinity of 

 Portsmouth, N. H., giving special attention to the ferns and fern 

 allies for comparison with southern forms. Before returning to 

 Charleston Miss Bragg spent three weeks studying northern 

 herbaria and visiting museums in the vicinity of Boston, New 

 York, Philadelphia, and Washington. Miss Weeks studied 

 administrative methods of museums in and near New York. 

 Mr. McGrath visited the laboratories of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New 

 York. Mr. Mclntyre made a detailed study of the equipment 

 and methods of the wood-working shops in the museums of New 

 York and Brooklyn. 



During the summer the case for the camel group, and the first 

 of a new series of cases for the installation of minerals and other 

 small objects were built in the Museum shop, and another long 

 floor case is now under construction. As soon as plate glass can 

 be provided for these cases a large step forward in the installa- 

 tion of specimens will be possible. 



Miss Helen von Kolnitz, a member of the Natural History 

 Society for a number of years, is acting as volunteer assistant 

 in botany, giving two mornings a week to work on the her- 

 barium. 



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