MUSEUM BULLETIN 



XlBR. 



OF THE 



Staten Hsland Association of Arts and Sciences 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 41. PubBshed Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y DECEMBER I9JJ. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



Will be held at the museum, St. George, on Saturday evening, December 16, 

 ion, at 8. is o'clock. Dr. J. Q. Adams will give an illustrated lecture on 

 "The beauty of machine-made things." 



J. Q. ADAMS. 



Acting Secretary 



The trustees have elected the following persons to membership: Miss 

 Frances M. Tollett, New Dorp; Mr. Leonal W. Hoffmeyer and Mr. Wm. R. 

 Hay ward, New Brighton; Mr. Ernst Heinemann, Fort Wadsworth; and 

 Mr. Abram L. Burbank, West New Brighton. 



Mr. Charles P. Benedict has been elected a patron of the Association in 

 recognition of his extensive gifts of natural history specimens to the museum. 



The third course of Friday afternoon children's lectures by Mr. Cleaves 

 consists of two topics only: December 22, "The spotted sandpiper and the kill- 

 deer", December 29, "Some other interesting snipes and sandpipers." 

 For the fourth course, in January, an exchange has been arranged with the 

 Children's Museum in Brooklyn, which promises to be of interest and profit 

 to both institutions. Miss Lee, assistant curator in the Children's Museum, 

 will lecture here at the usual hour on Fridays in January, giving two historical 

 topics and two on nature study. Mr. Cleaves will give four lectures on birds 

 at the Children's Museum on Saturdays in January at 2.30. 



The Museum lectures are open to all children above the fourth grade. 

 Younger children should not be brought to the museum at this hour. 



Through the generosity of Mr. William T. Davis, of the Board of Trustees, 

 the Museum has obtained most of the mounted birds belonging to the late John 

 J. Crooke of Great Kills. The collection includes a good specimen of passenger 

 pigion, a bird formerly abundant in this vicinity but now believed to be extinct; 

 also two Carolina Paroquets, examples of a nearly extinct species. 



Following is a list of donors to the museum and library during the month 

 of November: Mrs. H. Prescott Wells, Miss Gladys Hasson, Miss Agnes L. 

 Pollard, Messrs White, C. F. Groth, Frank Watson, C. L. Pollard, Robert 

 Strachan, Eugine McCallion, Frank M. Jones, George Franck, J. W. Angell, 

 Howard H. Cleaves, William W. Bryan, the Children's Museum and the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



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