LIBRARY 



MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



§3>taten MatttJ ^ssociatton of &xt$ antr Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-OHIEF. 



No. 3. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. OCTOBER, 1908. 



NOTICE 



THE OCTOBER meeting of the Association will be held in the reading 

 room of the St. George Branch, New York Public Library, on Saturday even- 

 ing, October 17, 1908, at eight o'clock. Members wishing to present communi- 

 cations as part of the regular progi am, are requested to notify the undersigned 

 in advance of the meeting. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, 



Secretary. 



IT IS important that members shoald read the BULLETIN carefully, and 

 preserve the numbers iui reference, as no other notices of meetings will be 

 sent out. 



THE following persons were el cted to active membership in the Associa- 

 tion by the Board oi Trustees at ib> meeting on October 3: 



Bradford B. Babbitt, Mrs. Bradford E. Babbitt, Mrs. D. L. Bardwell, Miss 

 Mary A. M. Bayne, Mis. George R. Bcynton, James McBrien, Leonard McC. 

 L. Mitchill, Miss Edith M. Woodr af, Miss Zillah Heidenheim, all of New 

 Brighton; Frank Hankinsoc, James Harris n, William L. Sexton, West New 

 Brighton; Mrs. Marcel Kahle, Tomplinsvilie; Charles M Shipman, Rossville; 

 Louis W. Levy, New York. 



The resignations of Dwight H. Day and H. W. Doremus were accepted. 



THE Concert and Lecture Committee has completed arrangements for the 

 attractive course of entertainments to be initiated by the concert of the Olive 

 Mead Quartet on Tue day evening, October 13. Season tickets may still be 

 obtained from Mr. S. McK. Smith, Hamilton Park, New Brighton; also at the 

 Museum: and at the door on the night oi the concert. Members should try to 

 interest their friends in this course not only ior the sake of the Association, 

 I ut because artists of such c&littr 1 a\ e seldcm appeared on Staten Island 

 and deserve ample recognition. 



Those who do not wish to subscribe for the entire coarse may buy admis- 

 sion tickets at the door. The free ct these is one dollar; of season tickets, 

 three dollars. The dates ara October 13 and 29, November 10 and 23. 



PURSUANT to a resolution of the Board of Trustees adopted October 3 

 the Museum will be open to the public Monday evenings from 7: 3o to 10 

 o .lock until further notice, in addition to the regular days. This will afford 

 opportunity for inspection to many who are unable to visit the Museum 

 during the day. 



LACK of space compels us to defer till the next issue description of a 

 number of interesting accessions which have come to the Museum recently. 



