238 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



A public meeting was held under the joint auspices of the Civic League, 

 The Dongan Hills Improvement Society, and The Antiquarian Society, at 

 which Mr. Charles R. Ashbee gave a lecture on How to Make Staten 

 Island more Livable. 



Records of Accessions May i, 1916 to April 30, 1917 



Archeology and Anthropology 190 



Arts and Antiquities 65 



Books, Prints, Etc 107 



Botany 349 



Geology and Mineralogy 238 



Zoology 206 



Miscellaneous 20 



Total 1,17s 



These were comprised in 150 accessions, 127 of which were gifts, 15 

 collected for the museum, i made for the museum, 2 were exchanges, and 

 4 purchases. The list of donors follows. 



List of Contributors to the Museum and Library for 1916-17 



American Museum of Nat. History 



Harry Anderson 



George Bailey 



Howard R. Bayne 



Mrs. E. Blake 



Carol Bliss 



Laura Bliss 



E. C. Bridgman 



R. H. Britton 



Barbara Brown 



Janet T. Butler 



John Carlin 



Thomas S. Cary family 



Mrs. Nano E. Chapin 



James W. Clawson 



George Colton 



Conn. Acad, of Arts and Sciences 



Emerson Crouch 



Mrs. E. Davis 



Wm. T. Davis 



Miss G. O. Deas 



Harold K. Decker ' 



E. C. Delavan, Jr. 



Edward Kiedrowski 



Miss S. Jennie Kingsley 



Thaddeus Kroplinski 



Wm. La Varre 



Charles E. Lawrence 



F. J. Leaney 



Montague Lessler 



Theodore Luhrs 



Francis McCallan 



William Meese 



Jacob Mezger 



Bernard Mills 



Ira K. Morris 



Raymond Morris 



W. A. Murrill 



Museum of the American Indian 



Benjamin Neisner 



Fred Nelson 



New York Botanical Garden 



Daniel O'Connor 



Miss Ehzabeth Ogilby 



W. J. O'Shea 



Jacques Pascal 



John De Morgan 



Philip Dowell 



