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College of the City of Xew York, St. Nicholas 

 Avenue and 139th Street. Hudson-Fulton exhibit. 

 During the Hudson-Fulton Celebration and for 

 some weeks thereafter, the College of the City of 

 New York will have on e.xhibition in its historical 

 museum a collection of charts, views, manuscripts 

 and relics representing old New York. Among the 

 charts will be original prints of New Netherlands 

 and New Amsterdam by Nicholas J. Vischer, 

 about 1C.50; N. Visscher, 1090; Letter's "New 

 Jorek." 1720; contemporarj' plans and views of 

 the revolutionary period showing the movements 

 of Washington and Howe in this vicinity during 

 the campaign of 1776; revolutionary battle relics; 

 portraits, residences and letters of old New 

 Yorkers; bronze busts of Washington, Lincoln and 

 Fulton by Houdon and Volk; and other material 

 suggested by the celebration. 



Department of Parks, Boroughs of Brooklyn 

 and Queens. Through the courtesy of Commis- 

 sioner Michael J. Kennedy, the different species 

 of trees have been labeled in Prospect Park, from 

 the Plaza to the Willink entrance; in Bedford 

 Park; in Highland Park, and in Tompkins Park. 

 An additional small enameled sign has been hung 

 on those labeled trees that were indigenous to the 

 Hudson River Valley in 1609. The special label 

 reads : '" This species is a native of the Hudson 

 River Valley." 



Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl Street, near Broad 

 Street. Historic revolutionary building. Built 

 in 1719. Scene of Washington's farewell to his 

 officers on December 4, 1783. Restored December 

 4, 1907, by the New Y'ork Society of the Sons of 

 the Revolution. Open daily, except Sundays, from 



9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Special exhibition of revolu- 

 tionary relics by the New York State Society of 

 the Sons of the Revolution, who are the owners 

 of the historic building, September 15 to Novem- 

 ber 1. 



Long Island Historical Society, corner of Pierre- 

 pont and Clinton Streets. Brooklyn, between 

 Brooklyn Bridge and Borough Hall. Open daily, 

 except Sundays, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Refer- 

 ence library of 70,000 volumes; manuscripts, 

 relics, etc. Autograph receipt of Robert Fulton 

 and original manuscript volume of Banker's and 

 Sluyter's " Journal of a Voyage to New York in 

 1679-80." 



Metropolitan Muse%tm of Art, Central Park 

 East. Main entrance on Fifth Avenue at Eighty- 

 second Street. Open daily, except Sundays, from 



10 a.m. to 6 P.M.; until December 31, to 5 P.M.; 

 Saturdays to 10 p.m.; Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m. 

 On Mondays and Fridays an admission fee of 



twenty-five cents is charged, except to members 

 and copyists. Collections illustrating all depart- 

 ments of art and archeology. Special exhibition 

 of a magnificent collection of over 130 of the 

 works of seventeenth century Dutch masters, con- 

 stituting the finest e.xhibition of this kind ever 

 made. Products of colonial art : American paint- 

 ings, furniture, pewter and silver of the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries, etc. (Two cata- 

 logues for sale, one of Dutch exhibit and one of 

 colonial arts; price, ten cents each. Also finely 

 illustrated edition de lu.xe. ) 



National Arts Club, Twentieth Street near 

 Irving Place (Gramercy Park). This house was 

 formerly the residence of Samuel J. Tilden, and 

 is situated one block east of the birth-place of 

 ex-President Roosevelt. Open daily from Septem- 

 ber 20 to about October 18, 1909, from 10 a.m. 

 to 6 P.M. Special loan exhibition by the National 

 Arts Club, in cooperation with the American 

 Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. Three 

 centuries of New Y''ork City: special exhibition of 

 paintings, photographs, drawings and otner inter- 

 esting materials, illustrating the growth and 

 progress of New Y''ork from the time of Henry 

 Hudson to the present day. 



New York Aquarium, in Battery Park. Under 

 the management of the New Y''ork Zoological So- 

 ciety. Open daily, including Sundays, from 9 a.m. 

 to 5 P.M. until October 15. (October 16 to April 

 14, from 10 A.M. to 4 p.m.) This building was 

 erected in 1807 by the United States government 

 as a fort and after the war of 1812 was called 

 Castle Clinton; later, as Castle Garden, it was 

 the scene of Jenny Lind's triumphs, and from 

 1855 to 1890 it was the portal of the New World 

 for 7,690,606 immigrants. This is the largest 

 aquarium in the world and contains a greater 

 number of specimens and species than any other. 

 All tanks containing fish indigenous to the Hud- 

 son River will be so marked. 



New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. 

 Museums open daily, including Sundays, from 

 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.; conservatories from 10 A.M. to 

 4 P.M. Grounds always open. In the grounds 

 and conservatories exhibits of plants, shrubs, 

 trees and natural woodland; in the museums, 

 plant products utilized in the arts, sciences and 

 industries. All trees growing on Manhattan 

 Island and in the Hudson River Valley at the time 

 of Hudson's arrival are marked with the letter 

 " H." (Special illustrated catalogue for sale.) 



New York Genealogical and Biographical So- 

 ciety, 226 West Fifty-eighth Street, between 

 Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Open daily, ex- 



