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railroad terminal at St. George, collected by William T. Davis and Ernest 

 F. Neilson and entered in the book under the same date. 



Doctor Hollick remarked that it was of interest to note that five of the 

 fourteen organizers of the old association, N. L. Britton, William T. 

 Davis, Arthur Hollick, Charles W. Leng, and Edward C. Delavan, Jr., 

 after a lapse of thirty-five years, are j^et active in the affairs of the Staten 

 Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, DECEMBER l6, I916 



The meeting was held in the assembly room of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



First vice-president William T. Davis in the chair and thirteen persons 

 present. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of November 18, 1916, were read 

 and approved. 



President Howard R. Bayne arrived and the vice-president vacated 

 the chair. 



The president gave a verbal report of progress in behalf of the com- 

 mittee in charge of the proposed new museum building. An abstract is as 

 follows : 



1. The committee consists of Dr. John Q. Adams, chairman, Mr. Wil- 

 1am G. Willcox, Mr. James R. Walsh, and the president ex officio. 



2. Application was made to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for 

 a plot of land now owned by the city, 115 feet by 108 feet, at the north- 

 east corner of Wall Street and Stuyvesant Place, on which to erect the 

 proposed building. This application is now pending. 



3. Plans for a three-story and basement, fireproof building, to cost ap- 

 proximately $20,000, have been prepared by Mr. Robert W. Gardner, who 

 was selected as the architect. These plans have been examined, discussed, 

 amended and tentatively approved by the committee, except in regard to 

 minor details. 



4. Mr. William G. .Willcox offered to contribute $10,000 to the building 

 fund, conditional on an equal amount being raised from other sources on 

 or before May i, 1917. 



5. The committee has visited forty residents of Staten Island and so- 

 licited contributions to the fund. Twenty pledged subscriptions aggre- 

 gating $5,570 have been received at date. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick referred to the recent action of the Board of Esti- 

 mate and Apportionment in reducing the appropriation for salaries in the 

 1917 budget appropriation for the support of the museum, including the 

 elimination of the position of curator held by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, 

 and offered the following resolutions : 



Resolved, that the Board of Trustees be and is hereby requested to take 

 such action as it may deem advisable to endeavor to obtain the retention 



