Museum Bulletin 



Beginning with this issue the Bulletin appears in a new form, 

 which the Publication Committee trusts will meet with the ap- 

 proval of the members. The enlargement to two pages of current 

 notes and news was authorized by the Board of Trustees last 

 June, and was carried out in connection with the July number. 

 The change of form was subsequently decided upon, to begin with 

 this issue, inasmuch as the first number of the Bulletin was issued 

 in August 1908. In its old form the Bulletin, therefore, includes 

 exactly six years of publication, and the seventy-two numbers 

 may be bound together as a single volume. The current number 

 is, therefore, regarded as beginning a new series and is so de- 

 signated. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Richard H. Britton in placing 

 his motor boat and automobile at the disposal of the curator-in- 

 chief a number of profitable collecting trips have been made along 

 the shores of the Lower Bay and to several sections in the interior 

 of the Island during the month of August. In company with Dr. 

 N. L. Britton a beginning was made in collecting the local lichen 

 flora, which class of plants is not represented in our herbarium, 

 and a number of critical species of the higher plants were col- 

 lected for careful study and identification. Several specimens of 

 marine invertebates and others of geologic interest were col- 

 lected in the waters and on the shore at Prince's Bay It is 

 planned to investigate several matters of local scientific interest, 

 heretofore neglected, whenever opportunities occur, and to render 

 our collections of local material as complete as possible. 



The Staten Island Bird Lovers' Club held a remarkably well 

 attended meeting in the assembly hall of the museum on the 

 afternoon of August 14, notwithstanding the oppressive heat of 

 mid-summer. The following members and interested persons 

 were present : Mrs. Wilhelm Knauth (President), Mrs. A. C. Bohn 

 (Secretary), Mrs. Norman Stewart Walker, Mrs. H. D. Wiman, 

 Mrs. Walter W. Price, Mrs. J. W. Curtis, Rev. Dr. George C. 

 Cressey and Mrs. Cressey, Misses S. Gertrude Clark, Irma Wilson, 

 Evelyn Waite, Mildred Walker, J. H. Horak and Miriam Frazee ; 

 Messrs. Harold K. Decker and Howard H. Cleaves. Plans were 

 discussed for furnishing the schools of the island with winter feed- 

 ing stations for wild birds, both as a means of stimulating interest 



