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MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten Usland association of arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. CU RATOR- I IM-CH I EF 



No. 13. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y AUGUST, 190?. 



OPENING OF THE SPECIAL MUSEUM EXHIBIT. 



WITH the cooperation of the Staten Island branch of the Children's Festival 

 Committee, Hudson-Fulton celebration, of which Mr. Ralph McKee is chair- 

 man and Mr. J. Blake Hillyer, one of our trustees, local supervisor, a special 

 commemorative exhibit is being; placed in the Museum. It is designed to show 

 the natural resources of the island and its historical development through the 

 colonial period. 



The exhibit will be opened to the public at 10 a. m. on Saturday, September 

 4, the 300th anniversary of Hudson's landing on Staten Island. At 3 p. m. 

 Hon. Howard R. Bayne, President of the Association, will give a brief address 

 in the Museum, to which all members and the general public are cordially 

 invited. 



The exhibit will remain on view until November 1. It will be described at 

 greater length in the next issue of the BULLETIN. 



THE collecting trip in North Carolina made by Mr. Charles L. Pollard in 

 company with Mr. George P. Engelhardt, of the Children's Museum in Brooklyn, 

 proved very successful. The chief object of the trip was to obtain material for 

 our study collection of North American insects to be used especially in connec- 

 tion with the Saturday afternoon lectures next winter, and also to add to our 

 stock of valuable exchange material. 



The party proceeded first to Norfolk, Va., where collections were made at 

 Virginia Beach and in the Dismal Swamp; thence they proceeded southward 

 and visited Roanoke Island, N. C. a locality not widely known to entomolo- 

 gists, but celebrated as the site of the first English settlement in North America 

 and as the birthplace of the first white child born on American soil. 



A week was spent in the vicinity of Wilmington, where a large series of butter- 

 flies and some rare beetles were collected. Here also the curious Venus' flytrap, 

 a plant found nowhere else in the world, was obtained, and living specimens 

 shipped. A visit was then paid to Smith's Island, at the mouth of the Cape 

 Fear River. This island, situated very near the Gulf Stream, possesses features 

 of much interest to the biologist, as many subtropical plants not found on the 

 adjacent mainland flourish there. Among the interesting insects collected on 

 this island is a fine series of the handsome swallowtail butterfly Papilio palamedes. 



From Wilmington the party crossed the state to Wilkesboro, situated among 

 the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains. Here a wagon was taken, and the 

 journey made by easy stage to Blowing Rock, thence across Grandfather 

 Mountain to Linville and Linville Falls, one of the wildest and most picturesque 

 spots in the southern mountain region. Returning to Montezuma, the train 

 was taken to Johnson City, Tenn., and thence to New York. In the mountains 

 collections were made at many points of varying altitude, and numerous photo- 

 graphs taken by Mr. Engelhardt. One specimen of the very rare butterfly 

 Argynnis diana, the great desideratum of collectors, was secured by Mr. Pollard. 



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



