Records of ]\Ieetings 217 



Announced Program 



Captain Francis D. Murphy gave an illustrated lecture on the African 

 animals represented in the collection of mounted heads and other 

 zoological specimens recently presented to the museum by Mr. Frederick 

 C. Havemeyer. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, FEBRUARY I7, I917 



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

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and thirty persons present. 



The minutes of the regular meeting of January 20, 1917, were read and 

 approved. 



The president gave a verbal report on behalf of the committee on the 

 new museum building, as follows : 



The total pledged subscriptions to the building fund to date aggregate 

 $6,785 in addition to the $10,000 conditionally pledged by Mr. Willcox. 



The request made to the city for a plot of land on which to erect the 

 building was approved and the plot assigned at a meeting of the Com- 

 missioners of the Sinking Fund held on January 25. 



Following is an abstract from the proceedings of the meeting of the 

 Commissioners in relation to the matter :i 



" The Deputy and Acting Comptroller presented the following report 

 and offered the following resolution : 



"January 20, 191 7. 

 "To THE Honorable the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: 



"Gentlemen: The President of the Staten Island Association of Arts 

 and Sciences in a communication to your Board under date of October 14, 

 1916, requests the assignment to that Association of part (115 ft. by 108 

 ft.) of a plot of ground owned by the City at Wall Street and Stuyvesant 

 Place, in the Borough of Richmond, for the purpose of erecting thereon a 

 two and a half story and basement fireproof Museum building at a cost 

 of about $20,000, at the expense of the Staten Island Association of Arts 

 and Sciences, and which will take the place of the present quarters now 

 leased by the City, thereby effecting a saving to the City of $1,500 a year, 

 now paid for rent. . . . 



" The Corporation Counsel, in a communication under date of January 

 16, 1917, states that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund have the gen- 

 eral power under section 8 of chapter 850 of the Laws of 1911 'to allot 

 and set apart to said Association, land in the Borough of Richmond for 

 the erection of a suitable building or buildings for the keeping and main- 



1 Printed in the City Record 45 : 961. 6 F 1917. 



