Records of Meetings 



Reception. March 25, 191 1 



An afternoon reception, in place of the regular Alarch meeting of the 

 Association, was held in the newly occupied museum building, No. 154 

 Stuyvesant Place, New Brighton, to signify the formal opening of the 

 museum in its new quarters. About 150 persons were present. 



Addresses were delivered by the president, Hon. Howard R. Bayne; 

 Dr. William T. Hornaday, Director of the New York Zoological Park; 

 and Mr. Louis L. Tribus, Commissioner of Public Works for the 

 Borough of Richmond. 



A dinner in commemoration of the event was held at Hugot's Hotel, 

 St. George, in the evening, at which about eighty members and guests 

 were present. Addresses were delivered by the president, Hon. Howard 

 R. Bayne; the secretary, Dr. Arthur Hollick; Dr. Franklin W. Hooper, 

 Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Frederic A. 

 Lucas, Curator of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute; Dr. William T. 

 Hornaday, Director of the New York Zoological Park; Hon. George 

 Cromwell, President of the Borough of Richmond; Hon. William Allaire 

 Shortt, Member of Assembly; Dr. John Q. Adams; and Mr. Edwin 

 Markham. 



Regular Meeting, April 15, 1911 



The meeting was held in the assembly room of the Museum, No. 154 

 Stuyvesant Place, New Brighton, President Howard R. Bayne in the 

 chair, and about forty persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 18, 191 1, were read and 

 approved. 



The president referred to the advisability of increasing the number of 

 trustees of the Association and suggested, if the Association approve, that 

 a resolution be adopted authorizing the introduction of bills in the State 

 Legislature to amend the charter of the Association in that particular. 



Voted: That the representatives in the State Legislature from this 

 county be authorized to introduce bills amending the charter of the Asso- 

 ciation to give it power to increase the number of its Board of Trustees 

 to twenty-five. 



Scientific Program 



The president introduced the speaker of the evening, Dr. A. W. Ferris, 

 President of the New York State Commission in Lunacy, who delivered 

 an illustrated address on Insanity : Its Causes and Prevention. 



On motion a vote of thanks was tendered Dr. Ferris for his courtesy in 

 delivering the address, and to Mr. Charles A. Ingalls for the use and 

 management of the stereopticon. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



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