MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten Usland Association of Erts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. CU RATOR- I N-CH I EF 



No. 31. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y FEBRUARY, J9JJ. 



The next meeting of the Association will be held in the reading room of the 

 St. George branch, New York Public Library, on Saturday evening, February 

 18, at 8:15 oclock. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard, curator-in-chief of the museum, will give an address 

 on ''Conservation, the National issue." There will also be an opportunity for 

 brief communications of a general nature. 



J. Q. Adams, Acting Secretary 



Mr, Howard H. Cleaves, of Princes Bay, has been appointed assistant curator 

 of the museum, and entered upon his new duties February 1. He has been a 

 member of the Association since IQ05; and has frequently contributed ornitho- 

 ogical articles to its proceedings, as well as to the pages of Country Life in 

 America and other periodicals, Mr. Cleaves has also taken many unique photo- 

 graphs of bird life, some of which are spon to be exhibited in the museum. 



The Association may feel gratified that actual progress is being made in pre- 

 paring its new quarters for occupancy. 1 The museum staff is now complete ex- 

 cept for the aopointment of a night watchman, who will not be needed until the 

 building is tenanted. Contracts for repairs and alterations have been given out, 

 and the work will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. In the mean time 

 the study collections, implements and office furniture in the Museum in Borough 

 Hall are being packed for transfer. The exhibition cases will be left undisturbed 

 for the present, so that the museum may be kept open to the public up to 

 the actual time of moving. 



The most important alterations to be made at 154 Stuyvesant Place is the con- 

 version of the whole third story front into a meeting room and lecture hall, 

 which will be about forty feet long, and will have a raised platform with a stere- 

 opticon screen at one end. Easy access to a fire escape will be provided from 

 this room. 



With the exception of rooms devoted to offices and laboratory, the whole of 

 the first and second floors will be devoted to exhibition. The Staten Island local 

 collection will be given special rooms, and the art loan collection will also have 

 special quarters. The library will be located conveniently on the second floor. 



The house is to be lighted throughout by electricity and will be redecorated 

 under the supervision of the honorary curator of art. We trust that the remov- 

 al of the Museum will have been safely accomplished before the publication of 

 the March issue of the Bulletin. 



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