MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



0tatnt Jslatto Assnriatum of Arts ano BmwaB 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 

 No. 46. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N.Y. MAY, 1912. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 Hyatt Street, St. George, on Saturday evening, May 18, 1912, at 8:15 o'clock. 

 The president will deliver his annual address, and the reports of the Board of 

 Trustees and other officers will be presented. Four trustees will be elected 

 for a term of three years to succeed Howard Randolph Bayne, William 

 Thompson Davis, Arthur Hollick and Charles Arthur Ingalls, whose terms 

 expire on this date. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard, curator-in-chief, will also give an illustrated ad- 

 dress on " The future development of the museum," illustrated by plans. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, Secretary. 



On the evening of May 29, at 8:15 o'clock, the Seclion of Biology will 

 meet in the assembly hall of the museum. Entomologists of the New York, 

 Brooklyn and Newark Societies will be invited to attend the meeting, which 

 will take the form of a memorial to the late Dr. John B. Smith, state ento- 

 mologist of New Jersey. It is extremely appropriate that the Association 

 should thus recognize not only the important services of Dr. Smith in the 

 work of mosquito extermination on Staten Island, but his cordial interest in 

 the early stages of our museum and his liberal gift of specimens. Addresses 

 will be made by several entomologists personally acquainted with Dr. Smith's 

 life and work ; and members of the Association are invited to be present. 



The American Association of Museums will hold its annual convention 

 in New York City during the week beginning June 3. The Board of Trustees 

 has extended an invitation to the members to visit the museum on the after- 

 noon of Saturday, June 8, when it is proposed to entertain them by a tour of 

 the island in automobiles kindly loaned for the purpose by members of the 

 Association, followed by an inspection of the museum, refreshments being 

 served by the Women's Auxiliary Committee. Special announcements will 

 be sent to the members when detailed arrangements have been completed. 

 The curator-in-chief will take this occasion of celebrating the completion of 

 five years in the service of the Association, in place of the actual date of his 

 appointment, June 17, 1907. 



Accessions have been received during April from Messrs. J. W. Angell, 

 H. H. Cleaves, John De Morgan, Stafford C. Edwards, Arthur Hollick, Her- 

 bert K. Job, C. W. Leng, Donald Macken, Charles Schaeffer, Ernest Shoe- 

 maker, Leland Wincapaw, Charles Young, and Mrs. William G. Willcox. 

 One of the most valuable of these is the gift of Mr. Leng, which consists of 

 specimens of long-horned beetles from the famous Luetgens collection, com- 

 prising both native and exotic species, many of which were entirely unrepre- 

 sented in our collections. This group of beetles is of economic interest, as 

 the larvae often bore into shade and fruit trees and do considerable damage. 

 A case containing the more showy exotic forms is being prepared for exhi- 

 bition. 



The albino rat presented by Mr. Harold Decker is a remarkably perfect 

 specimen, and so tame that he has become a great pet in the museum. 



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