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EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 51. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N.Y. OCTOBER, 19J2. 



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 19, 1912, at 8:15 o'clock. The 

 program will be of a general nature. Refreshments will be served at the 

 close of the meeting. J. Q. ADAMS, 



Acting Secretary. 



The trustees have elected to active membership Dr. Henry G. Stein- 

 meyer, Stapleton ; Dr. Sidney G. Carney, Tompkinsville, and Mr. Ernest 

 Shoemaker, Brooklyn. Mr. Shoemaker has qualified as a life member. 



The regular Friday afternoon lectures for children of all grades above 

 3B will be resumed on October 25, and will be continued until the end of 

 March. The hour, 4 p. m., is unchanged from last year. It has been decided, 

 however, to issue tickets for these lectures, both in order to prevent over- 

 crowding and to keep a record of the attendance, whereby it can be deter- 

 mined what classes or individuals are gaining the greatest profit from the 

 lectures. These tickets may be obtained free of charge at the museum on 

 and after Monday, October 21. 



The first course, consisting of five lectures, will be given by Mr. Cleaves, 

 the general subject being on the classification of birds, and how the leading 

 groups may be known. The dates and special topics are as follows : 



October 25. How birds are studied and classified. 



November 1. Birds of prey. 



8. Water and shore birds. 



15. Gallinaceous birds. 



" 22. Perching birds. 



The publication committee has in hand the preparation of new circulars 

 of information concerning the Association and the Museum, giving a brief 

 history of the former and a synopsis of the more important collections in 

 the latter. There is quite a demand for this information from strangers who 

 visit the museum and we take this opportunity of suggesting to members 

 that they use the circulars freely among their friends. The splendid re- 

 sponse that is now being made to the appeal on behalf of the Smith Infirmary 

 shows what can be accomplished through a determined canvas. Surely it 

 ought not to be difficult for every one of our present members to gain two 

 new recruits for the Association, at the trifling membership fee of three dol- 

 lars. It is certain that such an addition to our income would greatly pro- 

 mote our work for the public welfare by opening new channels of activity. 



Accessions were received during September from J. W. Angell, Harold 

 Aubry, H. H. Cleaves, Alexander Forsyth, W. W. Grant, J. Blake Hillyer, 

 3d, Edmund Judson, Charles Kipper, W. A. Murrill, C. L. Pollard, R. J. Smith, 

 Leland Wincapaw, and Mrs. E. N. Dixon. 



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



