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as a member of the City Plan Committee of the Staten Island Civic League 

 during the past year. The director has also spent considerable time at and in 

 connection with the Britton Cottage, details of which are included in the 

 report of the committee in charge of the premises. 



Museum Routine 



The routine work of the museum was conducted with smoothness and as 

 efficiently as could be expected under the inconvenient conditions that 

 obtain, the limited means at our disposal, and the inadequate size of our mu- 

 seum staff. 



The administrative, curatorial, and educational work was apportioned as 

 heretofore between the director and the two curators, and the general care and 

 safeguarding of the Museum and its contents, including the Annex, was the 

 duty of the janitor, night watchman and museum guards, under specific 

 instructions and a carefully arranged time schedule. 



The personnel of the museum staff is the same as at the date of my last 

 annual report, and it is a pleasure to testify to the uniform loyalty to the 

 interests of the museum which all have shown; to the cheerfulness with which 

 emergencies have been met, and to the generous spirit of mutual cooperation 

 and assistance that has prevailed. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Arthur Hollick, 



Director. 



Appendix 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, Director, 



Public Museum, Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit the following statistical records in con-- 

 nection with the Museum for the year 1915-16: 



Records of Museum Attendance M.\y i, 1915, to April 30, 1916 

 Month Open days Number of visitors Daily average 



May. 1915 26 1,300 50 



June 26 974 37 + 



July 27 904 33 + 



August 26 881 33 + 



September 26 699 26 + 



October 26 1,235 47 + 



November 26 1,506 57 + 



December 27 1,293 47 + 



January, 1916 26 1,284 49 + 



February 25 1,327 53 + 



March 27 1,836 68 



April 25 1,113 44+ 



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