year delivery of exhibits to all schools, public and private, is 

 made by the Museum free of charge. Exhibits left one Monday 

 morning may be kept until the next. Regular schedules are 

 followed, these being arranged by the schools, and by the Muse- 

 um's curator of public instruction, under whose direction the 

 work is carried on. 



The number of schools receiving the exhibits has grown to 

 cover nearly all in Charleston. Outside of Charleston plans are 

 now being made for their circulation through the schools of 

 C'harleston County, and a schedule for the Beaufort Public 

 School has recently been put in operation. Very few exhibits 

 are ever idle, in fact the demand for the nature exhibits in pri- 

 mary grades is greatly in excess of the supply. 



The Charleston schools which are now using the exhibits, or 

 are to begin doing so in January, are as follows: 



Public— Crafts, Bennett, Courtenay, Shaw, Mitchell, Colored 

 Industrial, Simonton, Memminger Normal, and Charleston High 

 Schools. 



Private — St. Luke's Parish School, West Side Kindergarten, 

 Ashley Hall, Porter Military Academy, University School, Con- 

 federate Home College, and the schools of Miss Louise Smith, 

 Miss Rebecca Motte Frost, Miss Louisa FitzSimons, the Misses 

 Sass, the Misses Bacot and Barnwell, the Misses Gibbes, Miss 

 Mary McGee, and Miss Williams. 



Teachers in private schools frequently tell me that they wish 

 to use the traveling exhibits because their children hear about 

 them through public school pupils and ask why they don't have 

 them. As one teacher put it, "I 've had to take up nature study 

 in self-defense." Numbers of the private primary teachers use 

 the nature study course in modified form, being unable to get the 

 exhibits at the seasons they are on schedule for public schools. 



In October eight of the bird exhibits were sent to the State 

 Fair at Columbia. 



Several lectures have been given at schools during the past 

 year. Director Rea spoke at the Memminger Normal School 

 on The Value of Science in the School Curriculum and in Life, 



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