MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



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No. 10. 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. CU H ATOR- I N-CH I EF 



Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. 



MAY, 19C9. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF TFIE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the Museum m iorough Hall, on Saturday evening-, May 15, 

 igog, at eight o'clock. The annual address of the President will be delivered, 

 and reports of officers presented. Four trustees are to be elected to fill vacancies 

 caused bv the expiration of the terms of Hon. Howard R. Bayne, Mr. William 

 T. Davis, Dr. Arthur Hollick, and Mr. Charles A. Ingalls. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, Secretary, 



An application signed by Mrs. J. Q. Adams, Miss Ellen M. Harris, Mrs. 

 Marcel Kahle. Mrs. F. W. Skinner, and Mrs. S. McK. Smith, for permission 

 to establish a Section of Literature, has been approved by the Executive Com- 

 mittee pending final action by the Board of Trustees. The new Section will 

 doubtless be organized during the present month, so that plans for next season's 

 work may be considered during the summer by those having the matter in charge. 



As we go to press, arrangements have been completed for the joint meeting 

 of the New York and Brooklyn Entomological Societies to be held in the Museum 

 May 8, under the auspices of the Section of Biology. The scientific program is 

 as follows: "Rudimentary and vestigial structures in insects," Mr. C. Schaeffer; 

 "Notes on interesting Coleoptera," Mr. Charles W. Leng; "Some rare North 

 American Saturnians," Mr. Charles L. Pollard; "Thayer's theory of obliterative 

 coloration applied to insects," Mr. George P. Engelhardt; "Mosquitoes and the 

 mosquito problem," Professor John B. Smith, the last paper illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



We consider it an excellent policy for the various Sections to supplement 

 their work by securing in this way the occasional cooperation of other allied 

 societies or of individual guests. Not only does the Association benefit through 

 the wider knowledge of its activities, but the Museum frequently profits by gifts 

 or exchanges, and its collections are rendered more valuable when examined 

 and named by specialists. In view of its small membership the Section of 

 Biology has accomplished much during the first year of its existence, as its re- 

 ports, to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association, will demonstrate. 

 The Sections of Art and Literature are as yet too young to have indicated any 

 definite policy, but the same active interest is to be found among their member- 

 ship, and there is no doubt that both Sections will be prominent in Association 

 matters next season. Under our present organization it would seem that as the 

 Sections develop there will be less need of holding general monthly meetings of 

 the Association. This is a topic which should be freely discussed at the coming 

 annual meeting. 



Some few changes have been made in the exhibits preparatory to the extensive 

 rearrangement contemplated during the summer. Two table cases now contain 

 an instructive series of rocks illustrating the structural geology of the island and 

 the drift fossils found here. Large additions have been made to the wall cases 

 of exotic butterflies, and the latter are being arranged according to natural 

 groups and the countries which they inhabit. The reptiles of the Myers collec- 

 tion are being mounted in exhibition jars, and will occupy, when completed, the 

 group of cases heretofore filled by the Skinner collection of Iroquois Indian im- 

 plements, which will be displayed during the summer at the Stapleton Public 

 Library. The Committee on Exhibits of the Section of Art is expecting to 

 install a new art loan collection within a month. 



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



