MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



^iatett Jslatto Assoriattmt of Arts anc iiwttreB 



EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 62. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. SEPTEMBER, 1913 



In respect to the memory of the late Mayor William J. Gaynor, the mu- 

 seum will be closed to the public on Monday, September 22, until the hour 

 of noon. 



The stated fall meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held in the 

 museum on Saturday evening, October 4. 



The museum will open its educational work this season with a course of 

 four High School bird lectures by Mr. Cleaves. The first of these will be 

 delivered before the morning and afternoon assembly at Curtis High School 

 on September 26, the topic being "Recollections of a Visit in the Green Moun- 

 tains." The others will be given in the assembly hall of the museum on suc- 

 ceeding Fridays at 3:30 p.m. The subjects: October 3. "Studies in Nova 

 Scotian bird life". October 10. "Camping among the birds of the Virginia 

 coast." October 17. "A wonderful bird sanctuary 100 miles from New 

 York." These lectures will be open only to high school students and to 

 teachers. On October 24 the regular Friday lectures for grade school pupils 

 will begin; the subjects for the first course of these will be announced in 

 the next issue of the Bulletin. 



In the death of Edward Lyman Morris, which occurred at his home in 

 Brooklyn on September 14, the museum fraternity has lost an able and con- 

 scientious worker, a man of conspicuous integrity and high moral ideals, 

 whose career was rich in promise of successful achievement. 



For the last six years Mr. Morris had been curator of natural science in 

 the Brooklyn Central museum, and for a year previous to the appointment 

 of the present curator-in-chief, Mr. Fox, he administered the museum as 

 acting curator-in-chief. During that period he did much to bring the study 

 collections, especially the herbarium, to a higher degree of efficiency for study 

 and research work. He was always liberal and generous in his policy toward 

 other curators, and our own museum has profited in many instances through 

 his courtesy. In January of the present year Mr. Morris delivered an illus- 

 trated lecture before the Association on "Plant life in the desert." 



The writer has been an intimate personal friend of Mr. Morris for nearly 

 twenty years, especially during the long period in Washington when both were 

 associated in scientific work and in the organization of the Washington Biolo- 

 gists' Field Club. In the grief that is felt at his death in the height of his ca- 

 reer, there is comfort in the memory of a winning and sincere personality, and 

 of a noble and enduring friendship. CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD. 



Entered as 2d-class matter in the P.O. at New Brighton, N.Y., under Act of Congress, July 16, 1904 



