MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



g>tatnt Jslano Association of Arts atto BnnutB 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 57. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N.Y. APRIL, 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, April 19, 1913, at 8:15 o'clock. The program 

 will consist of a symposium of "Museum Extension Work." Mr. Howard 

 H. Cleaves will speak on "The museum lectures," and Mr. Charles L. Pollard 

 on "The museum and Boy Scouts," both addresses illustrated by means of 

 the steropticon. There will follow a general discussion of methods by which 

 the museum activities may be extended, and all members are invited to 

 participate. 



J. Q. ADAMS, 



Acting Secretary. 



The majority of the loan collection of pictures on the first floor will re- 

 main until after the meeting of the Association next Saturday. Those who 

 have not yet seen the collection should avail themselves of the opportunity 

 on that evening. 



The Board of Trustees elected the following new members of the As- 

 sociation on April 12 : Miss Theodora Lins, Miss Carolyn C. Mase, Mr. 

 John May, Mrs. John May, Mrs. F. Winthrop White, New Brighton; Mr. 

 Frederick Marshall, Great Kills; Mr. Wm. C. Rowland, Stapleton; Mr. Edgar 

 L. Benjamin, Port Richmond ; Mr. Guy Pene du Bois, West New Brighton. 



The museum has received from Mr. Charles Humphrey a gift of about 

 1500 mounted plants collected in the vicinity of Ithaca, N. Y., being a nearly 

 complete representation of the flora of that region, in so far as the ferns and 

 seed plants are concerned. This addition to our herbarium is very accept- 

 able, and comes most opportunely, as the new metal insect-proof cases 

 ordered early in the year, have recently been received. 



Another interesting accession includes a finely executed sampler of 1820 

 and a pair of bronze candlesticks, replicas of early Pompeian models. These 

 were the gift of Mr. William Standerwick. 



The Scouts have prepared the museum grounds for planting and an ap- 

 propriation has been made by the trustees to purchase flower seeds. A space 

 at the back of the garden has been given to the boys, who are practising in- 

 tensive farming with a wide variety of crops. 



Accessions during March were received from the following persons: 

 American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Bainbridge, Miss Laura Barrett, 

 Howard H. Cleaves, Wm. T. Davis, Mrs. W. W. Grant, Mrs. H. D. Joy, G. A. 

 Skrzyneki, John Rader, L. L. Tribus, Sidney Young. 



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



