MUSEUM BULLETIN ^ 



OF THE 



Gbe Statenllsland association of &rts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



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



No. 29. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. DECEMBER, J9I0. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 December 17, 1910. at 8:15 o'clock. The program, under the auspices of the 

 Section of Art. will consist of a lecture by Dr. Bruno Roselli, of Adelphi Col- 

 lege, Brooklyn, on "Political and Religious Art in Medieval Siena," with stere- 

 opticon illustrations. 



J. Q. ADAMS, 



Acting Secretary. 



At the stated meeting on December 3rd, the Board of Trustees unanimously 

 adopted the following resolution: 



"Resolved, that the Board of Trustees recommends to the members of the 

 Association that the number of trustees be increased to twenty- five in order to 

 admit of the election of women members of the Board, and that in the event of 

 such increase the number necessary for a quorum at any meeting of the Board 

 be increased from five to eight. 



This will necessitate an amendment to Article II of the Constitution, which 

 will be offered at the meeting of the Association on December 17, and will then 

 lie over until the following meeting for action, unless a special meeting be called 

 for that purpose. 



The Board elected Dr. William R. Janeway, of New Brighton, to member- 

 ship in the Association. 



The Executive Committee was empowered to conduct negotiations for the 

 rental and fitting up of the house which the Museum is expected to occupy, and 

 the consideration of other matters relating to the Museum was also referred to 

 this committee. 



The Museum is indebted to Miss Helen Aitkin, of the Brooklyn Museum, for 

 her kindly assistance in arranging and determining the collection of shells, 

 which is a remarkably complete one. It includes the Ernest F. Neilson and 

 the Henry Caesar collections, to which were added, during the past year, a 

 number of valuable species, the gift of Mrs. Charles Townsend. When the 

 work of determination is completed, a special exhibit of shells will be installed, 

 and some duplicates, mostly of tropical species, will be available for distribution. 



In connection with the subject of duplicates, we desire to call the attention of 

 our exchanges to the fact that the Museum has now on hand considerable dup- 

 licate material in various departments, and the curator-in- chief invites corres- 

 pondence from officers of other institutions desirous of exchanging. 



Entered as second-class matter in the Postoffice at New Brighton, N. Y ., under Act of Congress of July 10. rSgj 



