LIBRARY 



MUSEUM BULLETIN »oZ 



OF THE 



gptafen Manto gssociation of &rta anfc Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 

 BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. OURATOR-IN-OHIIF. 



So. 2. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. SEPTEMBER, 1908. 



ffHE NEXT stated meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held on Octo- 

 ^^ ber ?. All proposals for membership should be in the hands of the 

 Secretary on or before that date. This is especially important, because new 

 members admitted at that time will be entitled to the reduced rate on tickets 

 tor the. concert and lecture course to be given by the Association. A letter of 

 announcement concerning the course, together with a membership applica- 

 tion blank, is sent out with this issue of the BULLETIN. . 



A NEW exhibit illustrating various biological facts and phenomena is in 

 preparation, and portions of it are already on view. It will include examples 

 of variation, heredity, mutation,' protective mimicry, dimorphism, eta In the 

 san\e case is an interesting group entitled "Insect Architecture." 



ATTENTION is also directed to the display in the Museum of documents 

 relating to the burning of the Quarantine buildings, which occurred fifty 

 yars ago this month. Another fifty-year anniversary of interest, that of the 

 laying of the first Atlantic cable, took place in August A piece of this cable 

 may be seen among our exhibits at the St. George library. 



THE committees of the Association for- the year 1908-9 are as follows: 

 . Executive: Howard R. Bayne, Arthur Hollick, C. A Ingalls, ex officio; Wm. 

 K> Mitchill, George S. Humphrey. 



Auditing: John De Morgan; Stafford C. Edwards. 



Publication: Philip Do well, Wm. T. Davis, Arthur Hollick. 



.Accessions.- Charles L. Pollard, S. McK. Smith, Ira K. Morris. 



Museum and Sibrary: Wm. T. Davis, Charles P. Benedict, Stafford C Ed- 

 wards, Arthur Hollick, Alanson B. Skinner. 



Women's Auxilary: Mrs. Arthur Hollick, Mrs. S. McK. Smith, Mrs. F. W. 

 Skinner, Mrs. T. Livingstone Kennedy, Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker. 



Convert and Lecture: S. McK. Smith; Howard R Bayne, ex officio - r D. L. 

 Bardwell, Charles L» Pollard, and. the members of the Women's Auxiliary 

 Committee, .".;..- 



In the above list, the person first named on each committee is the chairman 

 thereof. The only other standing committee, that of Arts and Antiquities, is 

 Omitted because some reorganization will be necessary, owing to the recent 

 resignation of the chairman, Mr. Osborn M Curtis, who feels obliged to give 

 his entire time this fall to professional duties. We regret very nuch that th* 

 Association is thus to be deprived of -Mr. Curtis' services on this committee. 

 The success of the art loan exhibit at the opening of the Museum last spring 

 «as due largely to his active efforts. 



IT MAY be well to remind members that the public days of the Museum 

 »rc Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (except holidays ) from ten until fiv* 

 o'clock. Members should adhere to these hours when they wish to take 

 visitors to the Museum. ■' • 



