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MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten Ifsland Association of Arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CU RATOR- I N-CH I EF 



No. 17. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. DECEMBER, 1909 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the Museum in Borough Hall, St. George, on Saturday evening, 

 December 18, 1909, at 8.15 o'clock. 



The program will be in charge of the Section of Art, and will consist of a 

 lecture by Lewis F. Pilcher, Professor of Fine Arts in Vassar College, on the 

 topic "Doric architecture as applied to the Subtreasury building, at Broad and 

 Nassau Streets, New York City." The lecture will be illustrated by means of 

 the stereopticon. At its close there will be a brief business session of the 

 Section of Art. 



J. Q. Adams, Arthuk Hollick, 



C/iairman, Section of Art. Secretary. 



The attention of members is directed to the fact that the BULLETIN is- 

 issued this month one week earlier than usual in order to permit the announce- 

 ment which appears on the opposite page. The date of the monthly meeting 

 remains unchanged, being always the third Saturday. 



The lecture arranged for by the officers of the Section of Art is upon a local 

 topic of unusual interest, and while the Museum is somewhat limited in its ac- 

 commodations, we hope that it may be well filled on that occasion. Professor 

 Pilcher, who formerly held the chair of Architecture at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, is a practising architect in New York, and has designed a number 

 of important buildings. He is a recognized authority on the history of archi- 

 tecture, both in this country and abroad. 



The special exhibit of old prints in the Museum will be continued through 

 the present month, in order to afford the public a further opportunity of seeing 

 this remarkable collection. The Pennell drawings have been removed, but the 

 Mielatz prints may remain a short time longer, when their place will be taken 

 by a curious collection of old Japanese prints, loaned by Messrs. Bolton C. 

 Brown and Fred L. Stoddard, the courtesy of the loan having been obtained 

 for us by Dr. Adams. 



The Darwin Exhibit was opened on the evening of the Darwin memorial 

 meeting, and consisted of specimens of insects arranged to illustrate the princi- 

 ples of variation, protective mimicry and protective resemblance: a full set of 

 Darwin's works, and a portrait of Darwin loaned by the New York Academy 

 of Sciences through the courtesy of President Charles F. Cox. The portrait 

 has now been returned, but the cases of specimens will remain at present as 

 part of our regular biological exhibit. For certain specimens included in the 

 collection we are specially indebted to Messrs. Jacob Doll, Charles Schaeffer 

 and George P. Engelhardt, all of the Brooklyn Museum. 



The committee on exhibits of the Section of Arts has installed in the 

 Museum a new loan exhibit of old Sheffield plate and old cut glassware. The 

 latter, which has been placed in a new case recently built after a design in use 

 in the Metropolitan Museum, presents a very fine effect, the case being entirely 

 of glass in its interior. 



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