were known to be safe and free from possible injury or disturbance. 

 The room which in the beg:inning- was ample to accomodate and display 

 the accumulations of fourteen years is now, after only nine years in the 

 Academy, so full that it is little better than a storeroom, and valuable 

 material is waiting, ready to be donated as soon as additional space 

 can be provided for it. 



The movement for wider activities and broader scope in the affairs 

 of the Association beg:an to assume definite shape during the summer 

 of 190^ when information was informally sought and obtained by the 

 secretary in regard to the relations between the Municipality and insti- 

 tutions such as the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, etc. 

 During the following autumn the executive committee of the Associ- 

 ation was formally requested to consider the whole subject and to re- 

 port what steps it would be advisable to take in order that co-operation 

 with the Municipal authorities might be effected. Their recommenda- 

 tions resulted in the appointment, at the regular meeting on January 

 2ist, 1905, of a committee on incorporation, consisting of President 

 Howard R. Bayne, William A. Shortt, Montague Lessler and Edward 

 C. Delavan, and a committee on change of name, consisting of William 

 H. Mitchill, WilHam T. Davis and Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



At the regular meeting on February i8th the latter committee sub- 

 mitted a report containing suggestions for changes in the name of the 

 Association, and the one formally approved was "The Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences." 



At a special meeting on March i6th the committee on incorporation 

 submitted a draft of a proposed act to incorporate the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences, which was approved, and the com- 

 mittee was requested to have the act introduced in the State Legislature. 

 This was done on March 21st; it passed without opposition and was 

 signed by the Governor on May 17th. 



At the regular meeting on May 20th the following resolution was 

 adopted: 



''Resolved: that a special meeting of the Natural Science Association 

 of Staten Island be called for Saturday evening, June 3rd, 1905, at the 

 Staten Island Academy, for the purpose of taking action under Section 

 6 of Chapter 526 of the Laws of 1905, incorporating the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences, and that the secretary include in the 

 call for the meeting the following resolution: 



Resolved: that the Board of Trustees of this Association be and they 

 are hereby authorized to assign and convey to the Staten Island Asso- 

 ciation of Arts and Sciences all the property, real and personal, owned 

 and held by this Association." 



