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Scientific Program 



The announced illustrated lecture by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, on " Camp- 

 ing in Nova Scotia" had to be omitted by reason of the failure of the 

 electric current. 



The president called on Mr. Alanson Skinner, v^^ho read and explained 

 three stories in manuscript virritten by an Indian interpreter and trans- 

 mitted to him. He then sang several Indian songs and explained their 

 origins, purposes and meanings. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, December 21, 1912 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the museum, 154 Stuyve- 

 sant Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and forty persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of November 16, 1912, were read and 

 approved. 



The president announced that the Board of Trustees had approved a 

 suggestion to hold an Association dinner on March 25, the anniversary of 

 the opening of the museum in its present quarters, and that Dr. John Q. 

 Adams, Mr. Charles A. Ingalls and Mr. Charles L. Pollard had been ap- 

 pointed a committee to inquire into arrangements and to report either to 

 the Board of Trustees or to the Executive Committee. 



Scientific Program 



Dr. John Q. Adams delivered the announced lecture of the evening, on 

 " Franz Hals, Rembrandt, and Other Guild Painters of Holland." The 

 lecture was illustrated by lantern slides and by a loan exhibit of photo- 

 graphic and other reproductions of famous paintings by Dutch masters. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, January 18, 1913 

 The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the museum, 154 Stuyve- 

 sant Place, New Brighton. 



First Vice-President William T. Davis in the chair and forty-five per- 

 sons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of December 21, 1912, were read and 

 approved. 



Scientific Program 



Mr. Edward L. Morris, curator of natural history in the Central Mu- 

 seum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, delivered the an- 

 nounced lecture of the evening, on " Plant Life in the Desert," illustrated 

 by lantern slides. 



At the close of the lecture a vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Morris 

 for his courtesy. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



