Museum Bulletin 



Members will please note that the next stated meeting of 

 the Board of Trustees will be held on October 3 and that all 

 applications for membership in the Association should be trans- 

 mitted to the secretary before that date in order that they may 

 be considered and acted upon. 



Those of our members who are interested in botany will be 

 pleased to know that the entire herbarium, consisting of some 

 9,000 sheets, is now arranged in the cases provided for the pur- 

 pose, where it is available for reference and study. The Staten 

 Island plants are separated from the general collection in order 

 to facilitate the study of our local flora. There are, therefore, 

 two distinct series in the herbarium, each of which is arranged 

 in accordance with the most recent conceptions of systematic 

 botany. The scientific value of our local herbarium, which is 

 one of the most complete and comprehensive of its kind in ex- 

 istence, is thoroughly appreciated by those who are interested in 

 the flora of New York and vicinity. Dr. N. L. Britton, Director- 

 in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden, is taking advantage 

 of its availability to make a critical examination of all the local 

 specimens, in connection with a work on this flora which is now 

 nearing completion, and the resulting revision will accrue to our 

 benefit. It is hoped that members will bring in any plants that 

 they may wish to have identified and named. 



The Association was represented at the recent County Fair, 

 held at Dongan Hills during the early part of the present month, 

 by several large placards which were prepared at the museum 

 and hung in the same booth with the exhibit of the Staten Island 

 Civic League at the invitation of that body. Some photographs 

 of characteristic exhibits, a number of typical case labels and 

 copies of the earliest and latest numbers of the Museum Bulle- 

 tin and of the Proceedings were included in the display. Other 

 statistics, especially concerning the history of the Museum, were 

 set forth on large printed cards, and numbers of folders and 

 extra copies of the Bulletin were placed for free distribution. 



On August 22, 1914, a beautiful adult specimen of the bald 

 eagle (Haliaeetus I. leucocephalus Linn.) was seen at Princes Bay. 

 Attention was called to him by the screams of an irate fish hawk 

 which was observed to swoop from above at the back of the 



