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MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten flsland association of arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 9. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. APRIL, J909- 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the Museum in Borough Hall, on Saturday evening-, April 17. 

 igog, at eight o'clock. Members are invited to bring' visitors. The elevator 

 will be in service from 7.30 to 9 p. m. Use the Jay Street entrance. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, 



Secretary. 



AT THE stated meeting on April 3 the Board of Trustees elected to member- 

 ship Mrs. C. W. Hunt, Stapleton, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wallace, New 

 Brighton. 



WE DESIRE to call attention to the fact that the Museum is open on the 

 evenings of President Cromwell's monthly receptions, and those who attend the 

 lectures on borough administration are cordially invited to inspect the Museum 

 afterward and to meet the officers of the Association. 



A REMARKABLE collection of photographs of cats and kittens of all types 

 and ages has been loaned to the Museum by Mr. Samuel Brick, and is now on 

 view. These photographs have attracted much attention and interest at the St. 

 George library, where they have been recently displayed. For the April meeting 

 of the Association next Saturday there will be a special exhibit of our collec- 

 tion of birds' eggs, which have been recently catalogued and arranged. 



Mr. George P. Engelhardt, of the Children's Museum, has presented us with 

 about seventy-five beautiful specimens of tropical butterflies and moths. 



Youthful visitors are much interested in the cage full of live cocoons of the 

 Mexican silk moth Rothschildia orizaba. The moths have been emerging in 

 considerable numbers recently. 



The Curator-in-chief will represent the Museum at the annual meeting of the 

 American Association of Museums in Philadelphia next month. Afterward he 

 will visit the National Museum in Washington to make arrangements for an 

 exchange of material and to determine some of the unnamed specimens in our 

 collections. 



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