Viil CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CHARLESTON MusEuM 
were published; the first, issued in 1834, was the first catalog 
of this nature published in this country. The second, edited by 
Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes, appeared in 1874. Dr. Ravenel’s col- 
lection, which has suffered greatly from neglect, has been given 
to the Charleston Museum and is now undergoing careful revi- 
sion. 
The first and best list of the recent shells of our state was made 
by Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes in the appendix to Tuomey’s Geology 
of South Carolina, published in 1848. Most of the species 
enumerated were in his own excellent cabinet, which is now 
owned by the University of South Carolina at Columbia. 
In 1860 Lieut. J. D. Kurtz U.S. A. published a Catalogue of 
the Recent Marine Shells found on the Coasts of North and South 
Carolina, which he had mainly ‘“‘collected during the years 1848 
to 1852’ while he was stationed at Fort Johnson, Charleston 
Harbor. Several new species were enumerated by him, many of 
which were published in conjunction with Dr. William Stimpson, 
who also made some important collections in Charleston Harbor 
and the immediate vicinity. 
Prof. Francis 8. Holmes was most zealous and painstaking 
in his labor of love in developing the riches of our local fauna in 
every division of the animal kingdom. I have elsewhere cited 
the admirable expression by Agassiz of his ‘unbounded admira- 
tion of the skilful and successful labors” of Professor Holmes 
during the first fourteen months of his administration as curator 
of the old Museum of the College of Charleston, and no future 
sketch of the zoological, botanical, and especially paleontological 
work done in this state can fail to give high honor to his splendid 
activity and enthusiasm. 
Dr. William Hume, for several years professor of chemistry 
at the South Carolina Military Academy (““The Citadel’’) had a 
small collection, as had also Miss A. M. Annelly, which latter, 
I think, had more of an aesthetic than a scientific value. 
Dr. J. P. Barratt of Abbeville and Bishop Stephen Elliott 
of Georgia, son of the botanist mentioned above, contributed 
largely of the spoils of their labor, especially in the streams of 
the upper counties, to the great work of Dr. Isaac Lea on the 
