Annual Reports 



Report of the Board of Trustees 



To the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Board of Trustees begs leave to report 

 as follows for the year 1907-08: 



The Board held ten meetings, as follows : the annual meeting, on May 

 25, 1907 ; stated meetings on October 5, 1907, January 4, and April 9, 

 1908, and special meetings on June 15, September 18, October 28, and 

 December 17, 1907, and February 18 and May 4, 1908. 



At the annual meeting officers of the Association were elected in con- 

 formity with the provision of Article II of the Constitution. 



One vacancy in the Board, caused by the resignation of Captain Daniel 

 Delehanty, was filled by the selection of Samuel McKee Smith. 



Four patrons were elected, in conformity with the provisions of Sec- 

 tion 6 of Bylaw III, as follows : 



Arthur Hollick, Charles Louis Pollard, James Chapin, Ignaz Matausch. 



Each one donated specimens to the museum and library valued at more 

 than $200 and aggregating probably not less than $1,000. 



One corresponding member, Charles Conrad Abbott, M.D., of Trenton, 

 N. J., was elected. 



The material included in the museum and library was removed from the 

 Staten Island Academy and installed in the room assigned for the pur- 

 pose by the city, on the third floor of Borough Hall, during the early 

 part of last July. 



An appropriation of $4,000 was subsequently obtained from the city for 

 the furnishing and equipment of the museum and library. By means of 

 this appropriation fourteen table cases and nine upright cases were con- 

 structed in accordance with our plans and specifications, prepared in con- 

 sultation with the city architects, Messrs. Carrere and Hastings, and all 

 supplies necessary for the prosecution of work in the museum and library 

 were provided. 



Charles Louis Pollard, M.A., formerly of the United States National 

 Museum, was appointed _c'urator on June 17, 1907, and a museum and 

 library staff was subsequently organized, to have general charge of the 

 arrangement of the museum and library, as follows : 



Curator-in- chief. 



Charles Louis Pollard 



Department of Zoology Department of Botany 



William Thompson Davis, Honor- Philip Dowell, Honorary Curator 



ary Curator 

 James Chapin, Honorary Assistant 



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