Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



among the children and of aiding the birds when the cold weather 

 is here. It was decided to further help the winter birds by estab- 

 lishing several large feeding places in the woodlands and else- 

 where—the grain and other food materials for the purpose to be 

 paid for from the club treasury. In order that the residents of 

 Staten Island might become more generally aware of the existence 

 of the Bird Lovers' Club, and that a Junior League might the more 

 easily be formed, it was decided to divide the island into districts, 

 with a committee for each ; and to have a representative appear 

 before the assemblies of as many schools as possible, for the 

 purpose of telling the children of the proposed work of the club 

 and with a view to enrolling them as Junior members. 



The O. P. Geoffroy collection of Mexican tiles, pottery, bead- 

 work, etc., has recently been placed on exhibition in the art and 

 archeology room on the first floor of the museum, and in the same 

 room may be found a case containing various native implements 

 from Mexico, South America, Africa and Alaska, part of which 

 are from the collection of the late Richard Penn Smith, donated 

 to the museum by Morton W. Smith. 



Donors to the museum and library since the last printed list 

 are as follows : Howard R. Bayne, Thomas Cunningham, Wm. T. 

 Davis, E. C. Delavan, Jr., Alexander Forsyth, J. Blake Hillyer, 

 Arthur Hollick, New Brighton ; H. Sherman Ingalls, Mrs. Wm. G. 

 Willcox, West New Brighton ; C. S. Egbert, Rosebank ; Nathan 

 Kasner, Morton W. Smith, New York City ; H. D. House, Albany, 

 N. Y.; Mrs. John A. Grossbeck, New Jersey ; D. W. MacDonald, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The accessions are unusually varied and interesting, repre- 

 senting geological, zoological and botanical specimens, historical 

 relics and documents, medals, foreign and domestic coins and 

 paper money, books, pamphlets, maps, etc. Among those which 

 may be specially mentioned are 116 additions to the Morton W. 

 Smith collection, comprising minerals, zoological and archeological 

 specimens ; an addition of 146 herbarium sheets of violets, from 

 Dr. House, which makes our collection of violets one of the finest 

 in America ; a photograph of Christopher Billopp's tomb-stone 

 at St. John, New Brunswick, taken and transmitted by Mr. Mac- 

 Donald, one of the patrons of the museum. 



