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most of the northern frontage on the third floor of the building, 

 is well adapted for museum purposes. It is about 25 by 150 

 feet, with five large windows situated in shallow alcoves. Ad- 

 mission is gained through three separate entrances from the cor- 

 ridor. The wall-space, except on the north side, is occupied by 

 a row of bookcases five feet in height ; these and the rest of 

 the woodwork are of weathered oak in dull finish. The west 

 half of the room, separated by a temporary partition, is now used 

 by draughtsmen attached to the city engineer's office ; it is under- 

 stood, however, that other quarters will be found for these by the 

 time the museum furniture is ready. A partition will then prob- 

 ably be erected at the eastern end, creating a room of sufficient 

 size for administrative purposes and for the accommodation of the 

 herbarium and other collections not on public exhibition. 



In botanical material the Association has already an excellent 

 nucleus. Its herbarium, numbering about 3,000 specimens, 

 consists chiefly of local plants, including most of the material, 

 original or in duplicate, on which Britton and Hollick's " Flora 

 of Richmond County" with its subsequent additions, was based. 

 To this will be added as soon as formally turned over to the 

 Association the herbarium of Dr. Arthur Hollick, containing 

 about the same number of specimens, many of them from other 

 parts of the United States. The local material will ultimately 

 be brought together as a separate herbarium, which with the 

 recent collections made on the island by Dr. Philip Dowell and 

 others will afford a very complete representation of the Staten 

 Island Flora, accessible to all students. For exhibition pur- 

 poses there is already available a good series of nuts, acorns, and 

 other large fruits from Staten Island trees ; specimens of bracket 

 fungi ; a number of stems showing various forms of fasciation ; 

 a few wood specimens ; and an excellent series of fossil plants 

 and plant remains. It is planned also to exhibit a collection of 

 the seaweeds of New York harbor, mounted in swinging or in 

 wall frames ; series of seeds of native grasses, weeds, etc. ; and 

 later, model groups illustrating the ecological features of our flora. 



The library of the Association at present includes about two 

 thousand volumes, principally serials received in exchange for 



