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MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 0ARD£N 



Staten flsland Association of Arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. J9. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. FEBRUARY, 19J0. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 February 19, 1910, at eight o'clock. The program, under the auspices of the 

 Section of Biology, will consist of two addresses illustrated by the stereopticon: 



Two seasons' photographic work with sandpipers at Wolf's Pond 

 Mr. Howard H. Cleaves. 



A naturalist in North Carolina 

 Mr. Charles L. Pollard. 



Arthur Hollick, 

 1 ' Secretary. 



During the present month the Museum has been enriched by a collection 

 of 193 specimens of starfishes, crabs, and other marine invertebrates, sent in ex- 

 change by the United States National Museum; by a number of butterflies and 

 moths received by exchange with Mi 1 . William Beutenmuller, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History; and by an excellent specimen of the short-eared 

 owl ( Asio accipitrinus) taken at Fort Wadsworth by Mr. Lambert O'Neill, Jr. 

 and by him presented to the Museum. 



A rare opportunity for lovers of art needlework will be afforded next month, 

 when the extensive collection of old samplers owned by Mr. George A. Plimpton, 

 of New York City, will be placed on exhibition in the Museum for a period of 

 ten days, through the good offices of Mrs. J. Q. Adams. It is safe to state that 

 no such collection has ever been gathered together in any museum, and as the 

 period of the loan is very short, we hope that members of the Association will 

 make every possible effort to induce their friends and the general public to visit 

 the Museum at that time. The exhibit will probably be opened soon after the 

 first of March, but due notice of the date will be given in the local press. 



Copies of the address on "The Staten Island Museum" delivered by the 

 Curator-in-chief at the meeting of the American Association of Museums last 

 spring are now ready for distribution to those of our members who may desire 

 them, and may be had upon application at the Museum. 



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



