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The lecture was preceded by a brief business meeting of the section. 



Permission having been obtained from the trustees, invitations were 

 sent out in the name of the art section for a private view, on December 

 2~, of the loan collections then on view in the museum. 



In arranging this function the ladies of the committee on exhibits were 

 assisted by the women's auxiliary committee of the Association. The 

 ladies in charge felt repaid for their exertions by the evident pleasure of 

 their guests, most of whom were non-members of the Association, this 

 being the class which the committee desired to interest. 



The excursions taken by the section were the outcome of a suggestion 

 made by Mrs. Adams. The first trip was made to City Hall in New York, 

 under the guidance of Dr. Adams. 



The decorations of the Governor's rooms and the historic portraits in 

 the building were examined with extreme interest. A second trip to 

 Manhattan was taken a week later, Mr. F. L. Stoddard conducting the 

 party. The objects of this visit were Mr. Stoddard's beautiful wall 

 decorations in the Hebrew Technical School for Girls, and Louis Tiffany's 

 masterly altar piece in the Church of the Ascension. 



Informal excursions were also taken by some members of the section 

 to see the collection of Wedgwood at Duveen's gallery, and to visit the 

 Dutch paintings and the colonial furniture exhibited at the Metropolitan 

 Museum in connection with the Hudson-Fulton celebration. 



The loan exhibits which our section has provided for the Staten Island 

 Museum during the year have spoken eloquently for themselves. 



Both work and responsibility are entailed in collecting and arranging 

 objects of a fragile and valuable nature, and a special word of acknowl- 

 edgment is due the committee on exhibits and the members of the section 

 who have individually undertaken this task. 



A detailed description of the loans, is impossible within the limits of a 

 report, but they may be briefly catalogued. 



On May 25 the committee on exhibits installed a collection of old china, 

 consisting largely of Lowestoft ware but including specimens of French, 

 English, Russian, Chinese, and Indian porcelain. This exhibition caused 

 much discussion among museum visitors concerning Chinese versus Eng- 

 lish Lowestoft, and incidentally encouraged investigation into the his- 

 tory of the manufacture of this debatable ware. 



Mrs. Hunt earned the thanks of the committee by photographing this 

 collection. 



In November a large collection of prints and engravings was secured 

 for the museum through the services of Miss L. J. Kipper. Part of this 

 loan consisted of old engravings and etchings, one case being devoted to 

 Hogarth prints. The modern part of this collection included eight pastel 

 drawings by Joseph Pennell and thirty-three prints by Charles Mielatz, 

 the subjects being characteristic scenes and buildings of New York. 



This exhibit was followed by one of curious old Japanese prints, 

 loaned by Messrs. Bolton C. Brown and F. L. Stoddard, and obtained 

 for us by Dr. Adams. 



