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many countries. Connected with the other galleries is the Pendleton 

 House, containing a remarkable collection of antique mahogany fur- 

 niture, rugs, mirrors, porcelain, china, and silver, gathered by the late 

 Charles Leonard Pendleton and presented by him to the school. 

 The house was given by Stephen O. Metcalf in accordance with the 

 stipulation of the connoisseur that a typical colonial house be erected 

 to hold his treasures. The place is unique in that house and furniture 

 are in perfect harmony, giving the impression not of a museum and 

 collection, but of the private mansion of a gentleman of taste and wealth 

 who lived in the i8th century and furnished his house with the best 

 examples of the cabinet makers of that period. 160 copies of a catalog 

 of the Pendleton collection have been published at a cost of $150 a 

 copy. 



Both the Pendleton House and the general collections are open to 

 the public daily, at hours varying with the seasons, an admission fee 

 of 25 cents being charged on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 

 The number of visitors in 1908 was 64,031. 



ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



The city maintains, in Roger Williams Park, zoological collections 

 established in 1891 and comprising 2 reptiles, 186 birds, and 192 mam- 

 mals. 



SOUTH CAROLINA 

 CHARLESTON: 



CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION. (Gibbes Memorial Art Build- 

 ing.) 



This association was incorporated in 1858. In 1906 the associa- 

 tion and the mayor of Charleston were made trustees of the Gibbes 

 Memorial Art Building, which was erected in 1904 at a cost of about 

 $85,000, on land worth $15,000, the cost of both land and building 

 being covered by a bequest of the late James S. Gibbes. An endow- 

 ment of about $8800 is available for the maintenance of the building, 

 while the association has an income of about $500 from memberships. 

 An arts and crafts school and annual exhibitions are maintained, and 

 a beginning of a permanent collection of art objects has been made. 

 A catalog of the annual exhibition is published, and the building is 

 open to the public at certain seasons at an admission fee of 25 cents. 



CHARLESTON MUSEUM. 



STAFF. Director, Paul M. Rea; Honorary curators, William G. 

 Mazyck (conchology) , Daniel S. Martin (geology), Arthur T. Wayne 

 (ornithology), Nathaniel W. Stephenson (art); Librarian, Laura 

 M. Bragg; i janitor. 



