74 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



The lowest attendance was on March 6, a very cold and stormy day, 

 when only one person was recorded on the ticker of the museum guard. 



Approximately 49 members have paid 130 visits to the museum during 

 the year. 



The holiday attendance was as follows : 



Decoration Day 12 



Independence Day 8 



Labor Day 14 



Columbus Day 22 



Election Day 53 



Thanksgiving Day 14 



Christmas Day ; 16 



New Year's Day 31 



Lincoln's Birthday 36 



Washington's Birthday 56 



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Classes of children with teachers have visited the museum as follows : 



Miss Cleaves and class from Bloomfield, N. J. 



Class from Van Cortlandt Park, N. Y., with two teachers and fifty 

 pupils. 



Miss Parker and class of defective pupils, some of whom afterwards 

 attended the Friday lectures by special permission. 



One of the teachers from Fort Wadsworth also brought her class to see 

 the exhibits, and the following week to the Friday lecture. 



Miss Tollett and a class of eight from Great Kills have made one visit, 

 and have planned for another during the summer. 



Accessions 



The following table of accessions shows the number of specimens re- 

 ceived in each department of the museum during the year. The most 

 important of these were: The MacDonald collection of 2,000 (estimated) 

 archeological, biological and antique objects; 787 insects and mammals 

 from C. W. J. and J. W. Angell; 571 insects from C. W. Leng; insect 

 cabinet from R. P. Dow; 157 mounted herbarium specimens of violets and 

 87 mounted birds and mammals from W. T. Davis; 117 shells, Indian 

 pottery fragments and geological specimens from Mrs. W. G. Willcox; 

 628 insects and 116 birds from the United States National Museum; 550 

 (estimated) specimens of shells and fossils from Miss Mary Racey Ridg- 

 way; 21 photographs of former presidents and other noted American 

 men from R. W. Gardner; pane of glass from window of St. James Hotel 

 in Port Richmond, bearing signature of Aaron Burr, from Wm. J. 

 Quinlan. 



