MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten island Association of Arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR- IN-CHI EF 



No. 18. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. JANUARY, WO. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 January 15, 1910, at eight o'clock. The program will be a general one, and all 

 members having notes or communications to present are requested to notify 

 the Secretary, if possible, in advance. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



During the past month the Board of Trustees elected the following persons 

 to membership in the Association: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Viertel, New 

 Brighton; Mrs. Charles P. Benedict, Mr. E. L. Andrews, Mr. Malcolm J. 

 Cameron, West New Brighton; Dr. Michael J. Lucey, Tompkinsville; Mr. 

 Roland J. Turpisch; Stapleton; Mrs. A. M. King, Rosebank, Mr. Edward W. 

 Brown, Dongan Hills. 



Mr. William L. Ettinger, who has succeeded Dr. Bardwell as district 

 superintendent of schools for the borough of Richmond, becomes ex officio a 

 trustee of the Association. 



Dr. J. Q. Adams, chairman of the Section of Art, has been appointed 

 He norary Curator of Art. 



The newly established Section of Historical Research will probably meet 

 for purposes of organization some time during the present month. Members of 

 the Association desiring to become affiliated with this section are requested to 

 notify the Secretary, Dr. Hollick. 



No new exhibits have been placed in the Museum during the past month, 

 although several are in course of preparation. The model of the Billopp house, 

 constructed by Mr. Frishberg, displayed during the special Hudson-Fulton ex- 

 hibition, was much injured by the steam heat in the Museum. It will be re- 

 paired and restored as soon as possible in view of the great public interest 

 evinced in the purchase of this house by the state as a permanent memorial. 



The loan exhibit of pictures and prints has now been withdrawn, with the 

 exception of the old Japanese prints, which will remain on view a short while 

 longer. These deserve, and will repay, a careful examination. They are not 

 only remarkable as works of art, but interesting in their quaintness and origin- 

 ality of treatment. 



The Curator-in-chief represented the Association in Boston during Christ- 

 mas week at the winter meetings of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the American Society of Naturalists. A special feature 

 of the convention was a symposium on the various problems of heredity, which 

 was participated in by eminent biologists from all parts of the country. 



Entered as second-class matter in the Post office at New Brighton, N.Y., under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 



