also the originals of the figures illustrating the work on 

 the "Quadrupeds of Xorth America, ' ' by Audubon and 

 Baehruan, which had been presented to the Museum 

 by those gentlemen. The records, books, papers ? and 

 three or four boxes of valuable specimens in natural 

 history were destroyed by fire, the act of incendiary 

 negroes, together with the valuable library of the 

 curator, Prof. Holmes. In 1865, the specimens con- 

 tained in some two hundred large cases were brought 

 back, and on June 1st, 1S66, the Museum was again 

 opened to visitors. 



In 1869, Prof. Holmes resigned and was succeeded 

 by Dr. Gabriel Manigault. For thirty years, until 

 his death in October, 1899, Dr. Manigault continued 

 as the curator, the collections growing steadily and 

 rapidly under his hand. Everywhere there is evidence 

 of his painstaking care in the hundreds of well 

 mounted skeletons, the cases, shelving, and mounts of 

 the specimens, much or most of which are the work 

 of his hand. In his last years he planned and carried 

 into execution the opening of a new department, that 

 of archaeology. In 1900 ? a chair of Biology and 

 Geology was established in the College, to which the 

 writer was appointed, being appointed at the same 

 time Curator of the Museum. 



