MUSEUM BULLETIN 



OF THE 



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EDITED FOR THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



BY CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



No. 65. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. DECEMBER, 1913 



THE NEXT MEETING OP THE ASSOCIATION 

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

 George, on Saturday evening, December 20, 1913, at 8.15 o'clock. 



ARTHUR HOLLICK, 



Secretary. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard has resigned the curatorship in chief of the mu- 

 seum, which he has held for the past six years, and will be succeeded on 

 January 1, 1914, by Dr. Arthur Hollick, now curator at the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden. Dr. Hollick has been secretary of the Board of Trustees for 

 many years, and has also been honorary curator of geology since the museum 

 has been organized. 



Mr. Pollard will devote himself to work with the Boy Scouts of America, 

 as Deputy Scout Commissioner for Staten Island. 



The loan collection now on view in the Museum contains manj r objects of 

 historic interest. To choose a few for mention : there is a graceful silver 

 pitcher dated 1848 and presented to Commander Timothy Greene Benham 

 for "distinguished and nautical skill"; a punch bowl said to have been used 

 by Lord Howe at a historic conference in the Billopp House ; a Louis Phillippe 

 glass; a champagne glass used by Lafayette on board the "Brandywine"; old 

 French pitchers in use at the time of the Edict of Nantes ; a souvenir dish 

 of the war of 1812; and various pieces of colonial glass and silver. The old 

 blue china includes a pilgrim plate, a states plate, a 17th century Dutch tile, 

 and two Lafayette platters. Among the choice bits of jewelry are old English 

 brooches of aquamarine and of pink amethyst, turquoise earrings belonging to 

 Martha "Washington, old seals, bracelets, watch fobs, quaint hair jewelry, 

 carved ivory, cameos, and a fine old Norman cross of chased gold. There are 

 also some delightful old prints, miniatures and silhouettes, and a large and 

 attractive collection of samplers. Mrs. W. F. Hunt loans lamps of many 

 types, including French and Dutch specimens of the 15th century, colonial 

 whale oil. lamps from Gloucester, Newbury and Falmouth, a Flemish lace 

 workers' lamp, a tiny bronze one from Greece, and, quaintest of all, a wooden 

 one from Holland. Others who contributed to the exhibit, which was ar- 

 ranged by the Committee on Art Loan Exhibits, are as follows: Mrs. J. Q. 

 Adams, Mrs. G S. Barnes, Mrs. Willis Barton, Mrs. Howard R. Bayne, Miss 

 Louise Bedell, the Benham family, Miss Florence Britton, Mrs. J. S. Burger. 

 Mrs. J. G. Clark, Miss S. Gertrude Clark, Mrs. Clinton Connor, Mrs. Crowell 

 Connor, Mrs. Charles Jacobson, Miss Ida Dudley Dale, Anna S. Decker, Mrs. 

 William Flake, Mrs. Mary Boehm Fuentes, Mrs. Robert W. Gardner, Miss M. E. 

 Garretson, Miss HalL Miss Alice Kennedy, Mrs. T. L. Kennedy, Mrs. John 

 Mersereau, Miss Louise Moore, Mrs. Robert Newbolt, Mrs. Eugenia Winant 

 Scharbach, Mrs. Henry Fitch Taylor, Miss Margaret Tysen, Mrs. Park J. 

 White, Miss Annie F. Wood. E. M. P. 



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