MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten tfsland Association of Arts and Sciences 



UBRAI 

 EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



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



No. 33. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. APRIL, 19 J J. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuyvesant Place, St. 

 George, on Saturday evening-, April 15, 1911, at 8.15 o'clock. An illustrated 

 lecture will be delivered by Albert Warren Ferris, M. D., President of the New 

 York State Commission in Lunacy, on the subject "Insanity, its causes and its 

 prevention." This program has been arranged through the good offices of 

 Senator Bayne, and it is hoped that the attendance of members will testify our 

 appreciation of the compliment paid by so distinguished a visitor. Dr. Ferris is 

 one of the most cultivated alienists of the State, and no one is better qualified, 

 from actual study and experience, to discuss the subject of insanity. 



J. Q. ADAMS, Acting Secretary. 



SPECIAL COURSE OF SPRING LECTURES. 



With the increased facilities afforded by our new museum building, it is now 

 possible to introduce new features of interest to members of the Association. 

 The Section of Biology has arranged for a spring course of public lectures, illus- 

 trated by the stereopticon, on successive Saturday evenings, beginning April 22, 

 the week following the regular meeting. The subjects and speakers are as fol- 

 lows: 



Aoril 22 — With the Seminoles in the Florida Everglades. — Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner. 



April 29 — Wild Flowers of Staten Island. — Dr. A J. Grout. 



May 6 — The expression of emotion in birds as shown by the camera. — Mr. 

 Clinton G. Abbott. 



The lectures will be given in the assembly hall of the museum building, 154 

 Stuyvesant Place, St. George, and are free to all members and their friends. 



The celebration by the Association on March 25 of its occupancy of the new 

 museum building was successful in every way. The afternoon reception was 

 attended by over 150 persons, including many representatives of other museums 

 and institutions in New York City. The exercises in the assembly hall were 

 simple, consisting of addresses by President Bayne, by Dr. W. T. Hornaday, 

 director of the Bronx Zoological Park, and by Mr. L. L. Tribus, Commissioner 

 of public works for Richmond Borough. The Dinner in the evening was atten- 

 ded by about 80 members and their guests, and proved so popular that it is like- 

 ly to be repeated on the same date next year. 



The museum was opened to the public on March 27, and the advantage gain- 

 ed by its more convenient location has been proved by the excellent daily aver- 

 age attendance since that time. In a succeeding issue of the Bulletin we shall 

 give an outline of the present arrangement of exhibits. 



Entered as second-class matter in the Postoffice at New Brighton, N. Y., under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



