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Present: William T. Davis, Arthur HoUick, Oliver P. Geoffrey, S. McKee 

 Smith, George W. Tuttle. 



On motion the reading of minutes was deferred. 



A letter was read from the retiring chairman, Mr. Edward C. Delavan, Jr., 

 declining to permit his candidacy for another term, on account of ill health. 

 Dr. Arthur HoUick was elected chairman pro tempore. Officers for the 

 ensuing year were then elected as follows: 



Chairman, Dr. Arthur HoUick. Recorder, S. McKee Smith. 



On motion the section adjourned to meet on Monday, February 7, 1916. 



February 7, 1916 



The meeting was called to order by the chairman. Dr. Arthur HoUick. 



Present: Howard R. Bayne, William T. Davis, Edward M. Stothers, 

 George W. Tuttle, S. McKee Smith. 



The minutes of the meetings of February 3, 1915, and Januarj' 8, 1916, 

 were read and approved. 



A letter from Mr. Ira K. Morris was read, expressing regret for his inability 

 to be present. 



Dr. Arthur HoUick remarked on a human skull and bones which were 

 unearthed by workmen while engaged in excavating for a pipe connection in 

 front of No. 6 Grififin Street, Tompkinsville, December 23, 1915. The remains 

 were brought to the Museum by three boys. The skull was encased and filled 

 with earth thoroughly impregnated with illuminating gas, so that its presence 

 in the Museum was not desirable. Subsequent investigation revealed what 

 were apparently fragments of a coffin in the earth thrown out of the exca- 

 vation, and the inference was that the remains were those of a body interred 

 there previous to the time when Griffin Street, one of the oldest thoroughfares 

 in that section of the island, was laid out. 



Doctor HoUick also exhibited and commented upon recent museum acces- 

 sions of local historical interest, as follows: 



I. From Mr. Harold K. Decker. — A powder horn originally owned by D. S. 

 Relyea during the period of the American Revolution and subsequently owned 

 and used until about 1850 by his son, Peter Relyea. From the wife of Peter 

 Relyea it passed into the possession of Mrs. A. S. Decker, mother of the donor. 

 The initials of the original owner, D. S. R., are cut in the wooden bottom of 

 the horn. 



2. From the estate ot the late Sanderson Smith. — A photograph by Isaac 

 Almstaedt of the second home of the S. R. Smith Infirmary, on Hannah Street, 

 Tompkinsville, taken some time during the period from 1 870-1 889. 



3. From an old scrapbook of the late Dr. Frederick HoUick. — (a) Two 

 lithographic views, one of Mariners' Harbor, with the Newark Bay lighthouse 

 in the foreground, the other of Richmond, showing Saint Andrew's Church, 

 the Court House, I'lichmond County Hall, etc., and the Dutch Reformed 

 Church on its old site on the Fresh K;ill Road. These are without any date 

 of publication; but the indications are that this was about 1850. (b) An en- 

 graving depicting the buildings of the New Brighton Institute, a private school, 



