Annual Reports 187 



Report of the Britton Cottage Committee 



The committee desires, first of all, to express its gratification on being 

 required to use the designation "Britton Cottage" at the head of this report, 

 instead of "Cubberly House" as heretofore, in accordance with the following 

 action of the Board of Trustees taken on May 29, 1915: 



" Voted, that hereafter the official designation of the premises generally 

 known as and commonly called the Cubberly House shall be the Britton 

 Cottage." 



It is also pleasing to note that, at the same meeting. Doctor and Mrs. 

 Britton were elected patrons of the Association in recognition of their gift of 

 the Cottage to the Association. 



The circumstances under which the property was tendered to the Asso- 

 ciation by Doctor and Mrs. Britton in December 1914, and conditionally 

 accepted by the Board of Trustees in January 1915, were fully described in Dr. 

 Arthur Hollick's paper on The Old Cubberly House at New Dorp, read at the 

 meeting of the Association on January 15, 1915, and subsequently printed in 

 the Proceedings, volume 5, pages 68-74, issued in April 1916 



The exact terms of the deed of gift were discussed and approved by Doctor 

 Britton and the committee of the Board appointed to take charge of the 

 matter, and at a special meeting of the Board held on May 10, 1915, the deed 

 to the property was formally presented and accepted under the following 

 resolution: 



"Resolved, that the chairman, as president of the Association, be and he 

 is hereby authorized, on behalf of the Association, to accept the deed of gift 

 of the property at the southern corner of New Dorp Lane and Cedar Grove 

 Avenue, New Dorp, donated by Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton." 



At the same meeting the matter of the maintenace, care and utilization ot the 

 property was discussed and the following action was taken: 



" Voted, that the chairman be and he is hereby authorized to appoint a 

 committee of three members of the Association whose duty it shall be to 

 arrange for the care of and plan for the future development of the property in 

 accordance with the terms of the deed of gift, and to formulate such rules and 

 regulations as may be deemed advisable in connection therewith." 



The chairman appointed Dr. John Q. Adams, chairman. Dr. Nathaniel L. 

 Britton, and Dr. Arthur HoUick as such committee. 



Doctor Britton subsequently informally suggested that he would be pleased 

 to cooperate with the committee in arranging for a reception and meeting of the 

 Association at the cottage to celebrate the transferral of the property, and that 

 he would defray all expenses that might be incurred in connection with the same. 

 It was in accordance vvith this suggestion that the adjourned annual meeting of 

 the Association was held there on Saturday afternoon. May 22, 1915, on which 

 occasion seventy-six members and guests were present. A luncheon was 

 served, and a program of exercises suitable to the occasion was carried out, as 

 noted in the Bulletin for June 1915, and in the Proceedings, volume 5, 

 pages 117, 118. It may not be generally known, however, that immediately 

 after the property had been formally accepted by the Association Doctor 



