MUSEUM BULLETIN 



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BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF NEW 1 



No. 43. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N.Y. FEBRUARY, 1912. b OTan 



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THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



Will be held in the assembly hall of the museum, Stuyvesant Place and 

 Hyatt St., St. George, on Saturday evening, February 17, 1912, at 8:15 o'clock. 

 Leland 0. Howard, M. D., Ph. D., Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, will give an illustrated address on "The neces- 

 sity for a national quarantine against injurious insects and plants." 



J. Q. ADAMS, 



Acting Secretary. 



At the February meeting of the Board of Trustees Mr. William T. 

 Davis of New Brighton, and Mr. Wallace MacDonald, of Chicago, were 

 elected patrons of the Association in recognition of their recent gifts to the 

 museum, as recounted in the Bulletin. The following new members were 

 elected : Mr. George M. Lillie, Mrs. George M. Lillie, Brighton Heights ; 

 Mr. S. D. Scudder, Mrs. S. D. Scudder, Dr. Charles E. Pearson, Tompkins- 

 ville. 



Accessions were received during January from Leland Wincapaw, 

 William Wincapaw, George P. Engelhardt, C. W. Leng, G. W. J. Angell, 

 J. W. Angell, William T. Davis, Jacob Doll, Charles L. Pollard, American 

 Museum of Natural History, Werner Boecklin, Harold K. Decker, Ernest 

 Schroeder, C. R. Tucker, Arthur Hollick. 



The museum has rejoiced for several weeks in the possesion of a live 

 opossum, given by Mr. Henry Martin, by whom it was captured near New 

 Springville. Patsey, as it has been named, is about two-thirds grown, and 

 like others of his kind, is of somnolent habit during the day, but fairly 

 active at night. His disposition is not of the best, as he continues to show 

 his teeth when handled or approached ; but he is too sluggish to display 

 more active resentment. 



The opossum was formerly a common animal on the island, but the de- 

 struction of the woodlands has caused it to become rare, and this is the first 

 capture of which we have knowledge within several years. 



The museum also has a live flying squirrel, the gift of Master Harold 

 K. Decker, who contributed a mounted specimen of the same animal. The 

 squirrel is a far more attractive pet than the opossum, although he, too, is 

 nocturnal and spends most of the daylight napping in his box. 



By the rearrangement of some of the storage cases, some valuable 

 space has been released in the general biology room for further exhibits. 

 An entirely new installation is being planned for this room. 



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