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Report of the Women's Auxiliary Committee 



The committee has taken charge of the refreshments served at meetings 

 of the Association. The expense account is given in the report of the 

 treasurer. 



Adeline A. Hollick, 



Chairman. 



Report .of the Publication Committee 



The Museum Bulletin, edited by the curator-in-chief, has been issued 

 monthly. 



Volume III, Part III, of the Proceedings (October, 1910-February, 191 

 including pp. 109-152, was issued February 15, 1912; Part IV (March- 

 May, 1911) including pp. 153-215, with title-page and index to the volume, 

 was issued April 25, 1912. 



Philip Dowell, 

 Chairman. 



Report of the Curator-in-Chief 



To the Board of Trustees, 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith my fifth annual report 

 as curator-in-chief for the fiscal year ending May 18, 1912. 



This period, following our establishment in the present museum build- 

 ing, has been one of achievement and progress in many directions. 

 Exhibits have been increased and improved ; the accessions have been of 

 considerable value; a satisfactory beginning has been made in cooperative 

 educational work by means of public lectures to school children; there 

 has been an increasing tendency to make use of the study collections and 

 the library ; and finally, the attendance for the year exceeded all estimates, 

 being nearly double that of 1910-1911. 



The City Budget Exhibit 



The museum participated in the second municipal Budget Exhibit, held 

 during October, 1911, and was accorded a more favorable position than in 

 the previous one. Our exhibit consisted of statistical placards and photo- 

 graphs illustrating our present and former quarters. The facts thus pre- 

 sented were undoubtedly influential in securing the adoption of our muni- 

 cipal budget with practically no reduction. 



Museum Exhibits 



The receipt of the MacDonald collection of Greco-Roman, Etruscan and 

 Egyptian antiquities, modern bric-a-brac, corals, fossils, etc., necessitated 

 a temporary abandonment of our policy of devoting the first floor ex- 



