I20 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Application previously made for an issue of corporate stock to the 

 amount of $2,000, to defray the cost of preparation of plans for a new 

 museum building, has not been acted upon, at date, so far as the Board 

 is advised. 



In December a communication was transmitted to the Commissioners of 

 the Sinking Fund requesting that the plot of land owned by the city and 

 bounded by Wall Street, Jay Street, Hamilton Avenue, and Stuyvesant 

 Place be set aside and reserved for a museum building for the Association, 

 in accordance with the plans for a civic center at St. George, prepared 

 early in the year 1912 by Hon. George Cromwell, at that time president 

 of the borough ; but this request was denied by the Commissioners. 



The lease of the building now occupied by the Association as a museum 

 expires on December 31 of the present year and it is of vital importance 

 to the future welfare and development of the Association that a renewal 

 of the lease be obtained, or else that other quarters be secured immediately. 

 At date the Board is unable to report anything of a definite nature in such 

 connection, although certain propositions and suggestions are under 

 consideration. 



Under these somewhat uncertain conditions it is gratifying to recall and 

 to formally record the generous and timely gift, by Dr. Nathaniel L. and 

 Elizabeth G. Britton, of the premises commonly known as the " Cubberly 

 House," at New Dorp, which was formally transferred to the Association 

 on Monday of last week, May 10 — the acquisition of which it is proposed 

 to celebrate, with suitable exercises, tomorrow, when the scope, signifi- 

 cance and importance of the gift will be described and discussed by those 

 who have attended to the details of its tender, acceptance and trans- 

 fer to us. 



The activities in which the Association has engaged during the year, or 

 which it has fostered and encouraged, have been highly creditable to the 

 Association and valuable to the community. In regard to most of these 

 the members have been apprised from time to time through the medium 

 of the Bulletin, and further details are contained in the report of the 

 director, which will be submitted to the Board and duly published as 

 usual. The president, also, will doubtless refer to certain of them in his 

 annual address. 



Special attention may properly be called, however, to the work of the 

 sections and to the advisability of enrolling in one or another of these, if 

 the members desire to take an active part in what the Association stands 

 for and is endeavoring to accomplish. The scientific, historical, and other 

 activities of the Association are now largely in the hands of the sections. 



The Section of Engineering, Architecture and Allied Professions has 

 held monthly meetings, with an interesting and instructive program on 

 each occasion. 



The Section of Art, through its art loan committee, has provided two 

 exhibits in the Museum, which were exceedingly interesting and highly 



