MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Staten Usland Association of Arts and Sciences ,..,, 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE NEW Yi 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. CURATOR- I N-CHI EF OOTANI 



No. 39. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. OCTOBER 1911. UaRD! 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



Will be held in the assembly hall of the museum, 154 Stuyvesant Place, St. 

 George, on Saturday evening-, October 21, ign, at 8:15 o'clock. The program 

 will be of a general nature. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



The museum has undertaken a series of lectures on natural history topics, 

 for the benefit of the school children of Staten Island, to be given in the assem- 

 bly hall on Friday afternoons at 4 o'clock. They will be divided into courses 

 of varying length, each course dealing with some general subject of interest in 

 animal or plant life. The first course, on "Owls and hawks of Staten Island" 

 will be given by Mr. Cleaves. The dates and special subjects are as follows: 



October 20. "The barred owl." 



October 27. "The barn owl." 



November 3. "Smaller owls." 



November 10. "Red-shouldered and other hawks." 



November 17. "The fish hawk." 



Courses will deal with "Winter birds." and Course 3 with "Shore birds." 

 All the lectures will be illustrated, and are open to all children above the fourth 

 grade. 



A highly successful meeting of the Section of Biology was held on October 

 11, in the library of the museum. Practically every member was in attendance, 

 and the noteworthy experiences and captures of the past summer were discussed. 

 Of special interest was the record of several additions to Mr. Davis' list of the 

 Macrolepidoptera of Staten Island, published in our Proceedings last year; also 

 the record of a bald eagle at Great Kills by Mr. Cleaves. 



We hope that the Section of Art and Historical Research will follow the 

 good example of the senior section and resume individual activities during 

 the coming season. The sections afford good opportunity for the leisurely pres- 

 entation and discussion of topics whose interest is mainly for the specialist, and 

 which are therefore less well adapted for the more popular program of a general 

 meeting of the Association. At the same time, the informality of these meetings 

 promotes good fellowship and the free interchange of ideas among those who 

 attend. 



Once more we earnestly ask for a further subscription to the library fund. 

 The sum of $73 has been received, but this is only about one-half of what is 

 needful to put the books in proper condition and to purchase some very necess- 

 ary works of reference. 



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