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Report of tHE Britton Cottage Committee ^ 



Your committee beg to report upon matters connected with the Britton 

 Cottage as follows : 



Social Functions 



On Saturday, May 26, 191 7, the museum staff enjoyed the privilege of 

 entertaining a delegation of visiting members of the American Association 

 of Museums, which held its annual meeting in New York during that week. 



An informal lunch and reception was given at the Museum, after which 

 the visitors were taken by automobiles to the Cottage. In addition to 

 those present from the museums of Greater New York and vicinity the 

 following institutions were also represented by delegates : the Art Museum 

 and Museum of Natural History of Springfield, Mass., the Museum of 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the Public Museum of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., and the Charleston [S. C] Museum. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick gave a brief account of the history of the Cottage 

 and how it became the property of the Association through the generosity 

 of Dr. N. L. Britton ; also an outline of the local historical work in which 

 the Association is engaged as one of its important museum activities. 



On Saturday afternoon, October 6, Staten Island Chapter, Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, gave a colonial tea and reception at the Cot- 

 tage, at which about eighty members and guests of the Chapter were pres- 

 ent. Dr. John Q. Adams delivered the formal address of the day. 



The occasion also served to celebrate the completion of the work of 

 renovating and furnishing the diningroom, which has been restored as 

 nearly as possible to what is assumed to have been its original condition. 

 The most important item of work was the removal of the relatively mod- 

 ern lath and plaster ceiling and the exposure of the old, massive oak 

 beams. 



Care and Maintenance 



Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Henry were continued as custodians, having re- 

 mained in the Cottage throughout the winter. 



During October the privet hedge was trimmed, for the first time and a 

 two-strand, barbed wire fence was strung through the middle throughout 



