LIBRARY 

 NfeW YORK 



MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OA!U>bJN. 



OF THE 



Staten Ifsland Association of arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD* CURATOR- I N-CH I EF 



No. 12. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. JULY, J909. 



COMMITTEES OF THF ASSOCIATION. 



The following appointments to the standing committees have been made by 

 President Bayne for the fiscal year of 1909-10. 



Executive. 



Hon. Howard R Bayne. chairman, Dr. Arthur Hollick, Mr. Charles A. 

 Ingalls, ex-officio; Mr. William H. Mitchill, Mr. George S. Humphrey. 



Auditing. 

 Mr. T. Livingstone Kennedy, chairman, Mr. Winfield R. Koller. 



Publications. 

 Dr. Philip Dowell, chairman, Dr. Arthur Hollick, Mr. William T. Davis. 



Museum and Library. 

 Mr. William T. Davis, chairman, Dr. John Quincy Adams, Mr. Charles P. 

 Benedict, Mr. Stafford C. Edwards, Dr. Arthur Hollick. 



Accessions. 



Mr. S. McK. Smith, chairman, Mrs. T. Livingstone Kennedy, 



(vacancy to be filled). 



Women's Auxiliary. 



Mrs. Arthur Hollick, chairman. Miss S. Gertrude Clark, Mrs. T. Livingstone 

 Kennedy, Mrs. F. W. Skinner, Mrs. William G. Willcox. 



The annual prize of ten dollars offered by the Association to pupils of Curtis 

 High School for the best work in natural science was awarded to Carl Philip 

 Dowell, of Port Richmond. The subject, as formulated by the committee, was 

 "a collection of the leaves and flowers or fruit of not less than 25 native and 

 introduced Staten Island trees, with a written discussion of their respective 

 availabilities for shade, ornamental or memorial purposes." The prize collec- 

 tion was beautifully mounted and correctly determined, while the essay entitled 

 "Our Forest Trees'' seemed to the committee worthy of publication, and with 

 the consent of its author will be printed as a Bulletin of the Wild Flower Pres- 

 ervation Society of America. 



Next year's competition calls for a collection of not less than 50 Staten 

 Island insects of economic importance, including at least 25 species. By "in- 

 sects of economic importance" is meant such as are injurious or beneficial to 

 cultivated plants or man. The conditions of competition are as follows: 



1. The specimens shall be neatly mounted or placed in boxes or cases. 



2. Each specimen shall be labeled with the scientific name, the common 

 name, if any, and the locality in which the specimen was collected. 



3. Accompanying the collection shall be a brief statement of the special 

 economic interest attaching to each specimen. 



4. The collection shall be made between July 1, 1909, and June 1, igio, and 

 shall be turned over to the Principal of Curtis High School complete in all 

 details on or before June 15, 1910. 



The committee in charge of the competition consists of Dr. Arthur Hollick, 

 chairman, Mr. Charles Louis Pollard and Mr. Harry M. Towle. 



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



