I04 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Report of the Museum Committee 



To the Board of Trustees, 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



Gentlemen: Your committee held a meeting on Saturday, December 4, 

 1909, at which time it was decided to remove certain books and objects 

 not available for museum purposes to a place of storage offered without 

 expense to the Association. This removal was later accomplished, and a 

 list of the objects stored was made by the curator. 



The other matters relating to the museum will be found in the report of 

 the curator-in-chief. 



Wm. T. Davis, 

 Chairman. 



Report of the Committee on Accessions 

 To the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



Gentlemen: Your committee on accessions offers the following report 

 for the year 1909-1910. 



The year just closing has been notable for the increasing interest shown 

 in the museum as a place for the safer deposit and better display of a 

 great variety of material. 



The total number of gifts, not counting exchanges, is reckoned at 4,639, 

 the number of donors 46. 



Among the larger accessions were: Mr. R. P. Dow's gift of 1,151 speci- 

 mens of exotic butterflies and moths, for which Mr. Dow was made a 

 patron; 1,030 specimens of violets from Dr. H. D. House for the herba- 

 rium; about 1,500 shells and other objects from Mrs. C. W. Townsend; 

 about 260 biological specimens from Mr. Wm. T. Davis ; about 100 speci- 

 mens each from Dr. Arthur Hollick and Mr. John B. Smith ; and smaller 

 but important gifts from Mr. F. M. Ho-glen, Dr. Philip Dowell, Mr. 

 Geo. Cromwell, Mr. C. L. Pollard, and Mr. Sanderson Smith. 



Three meetings of the committee were held : one each in December, 

 February, and May. 



S. McK. Smith, 

 Chairman. 



Report of the Women's Auxiliary Committee 



To the Board of Trustees, 



. Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



The activities of the women's auxiliary committee were confined to 

 assisting the art loan committee of the Section of Art at the reception 

 in the museum on December 27, 1909. 



Adeline A. T. Hollick, 

 Chairman. 



