MUSEUM BULLETIN 



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EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 54. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N.Y. JANUARY, 1913. 



THE NEXT MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 George, on Saturday evening, January 18, 1913, at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. 

 Edward L. Morris, Curator of Natural Science in the Brooklyn Museums, 

 will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Plant Life in the desert." Refresh- 

 ments will be served after the meeting. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, 



Secretary. 



The Association dinner held on the occasion of the reopening of the 

 museum March 25, 1911, after its removal from Borough Hall, proved so 

 successful that all who were present expressed the hope that it might be 

 repeated annually. Although one year has been allowed to pass, the 

 sentiment of the Association remains the same, as evinced by the unanimous 

 endorsement at the December meeting of the proposition made by the 

 Board of Trustees, to hold another dinner on March 25, 1913. Preliminary 

 arrangements and details are in the hands of a committee consisting of 

 Dr. J. Q. Adams, Mr. C. A. Ingalls and the curator-in-chief. This committee 

 will be ready to report in full at the February meetings of the Board and 

 the Association. 



Among the distinguished guests who have been invited or will be 

 invited are Presidents McAneny and Cromwell, District Attorney Whitman, 

 Mr. Robert W. de Forest, president of the Municipal Art Commission, 

 Director Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Director 

 Frederic A. Lucas of the American Museum of Natural History. 



The publication committee is now preparing a new circular of informa- 

 tion concerning the Association and the museum, to be printed as a booklet 

 of convenient form for general distribution. It will be accompanied by 

 membership blanks, and the committee invites the cooperation of mem- 

 bers in placing these booklets in the hands of those likely to read them. 



Volume IV, Parts 1 and 2 of the Proceedings are now in press. 

 These parts bring the publication up to May, 1912. 



The First St. George Troop of Boy Scouts now includes nine boys, with 

 five more recruits preparing for their tenderfoot examinations. Mention has 

 already been made in the local press of the good work done by the troop 

 on December 14 in putting out a forest fire near Richmond. 



Accessions were received during November and December from the 

 following: J. W. Angell, Howard R. Bayne, Samuel Brick, Jr., R.J. Cook-, 

 William T. Davis, John DeMorgan, H. C. Horton, Edward McQuillan, Col. 

 Wirt Robinson, J. W. Salsman, Charles Schaeffer, E. H. Schnakenberg, 

 Ernest Shoemaker, Alanson Skinner. 



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