Vll 

 Announcement by the Committee of ARRANGEMENts 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



(Late Natural Science Association of Staten Island.) 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



At the annual meeting of the Association, held on May igth, igo6s 

 the following- resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, that the Board of Trustees be directed to consider and to 

 formulate a program to celebrate and commemorate the 25th anniver- 

 sary of the organization, on November 12th, 1881, of the Natural 

 Science Association of Staten Island. 



In accordance with the above resolution the Board appointed a 

 special committee on the subject, and this committee has arranged for a 

 subscriptio7i dinner, at the Hotel Castleton, on Monday evening, Novem- 

 ber 12th, to which all members of the Association are hereby invited 

 and urged to attend. 



The subscription is $250, and guests' tickets may be obtained at the 

 same price. 



Members are requested to bring as guests any friends who may be 

 interested in the occasion, and they are specially requested to invite as 

 guests any lady members of their families. 



A number of distinguished persons, prominent as public officials, and 

 in the arts and sciences, have been invited to be present and to deliver 

 appropriate addresses. 



This will be a unique event for Staten Island, celebrating and com- 

 memorating as it will the successful completion of a quarter of a cen- 

 tury of organized scientific work in the community, and it is hoped 

 that all will unite in making it a success. 



// yo^c intend to be present ki?idly fill in a7id return tbe enclosed slip 

 in] the accompanying stamped and addressed envelope, not later than 

 Aovember 5th, making check payable to J. Blake Hillyer, Treas. 



Arthur Hollick, Chairman, 

 Howard R. Bayne, 

 Daniel Delehanty, 

 William H. Mitchill, 

 Darwin L. BardwelL; 

 J I Blake Hillyer, 



Committee! 



