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Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



The daguerreotypes shown number over one hundred,together with 

 a few ambrotypes and miniatures, and are especially interesting 

 because of the fact that nearly all are members of old Staten Island 

 families. A list of exhibitors follows : Mrs. J. Q. Adams, Mrs. S. E. 

 Barton, Mrs. C. P. Benedict, the Benham family, Mrs. C. H. Brown, 

 Mrs Appleton Clark, Dr. F. E. Clark, Dr. J. G. Clark, Miss S. Ger- 

 trude Clark, Mrs. L. M. Connor, Mrs. S. D. Crocheron, Miss Laura 

 K. Cropsey, Mrs. James Davis, Mrs. George W. Dix, Mrs. E. P. 

 Doyle, Miss Edgar, Mrs. Robert W. Gardner, Miss Myra Haines, 

 Mrs. Charles Jacobson, Mrs. T. L. Kennedy, Miss Lucy J. Kipper, 

 Mrs. George M. Lillie, Mrs. John Mersereau, Mrs. Wm. Mersereau, 

 Mrs. Henry B. Metcalfe, Mrs. Theodor S. Oxholm, Mrs. C. M. Por- 

 ter, Mr. John Porter, Mrs. Henry Fitch Taylor, Mrs. Tuttle, Mrs. 

 D. J. Tysen, Miss Margaret Tysen, Mrs. James R.Walsh,Mrs. Park J. 

 White, Miss Julia Wilson, Mrs. W. G. Willcox, Miss Annie F. Wood. 



The Staten Island Bird Lovers' Club held an interesting meet- 

 ing in the museum on the afternoon of November 4. A large 

 quantity of food for winter birds, purchased with club funds, was 

 distributed among the twenty odd members present. This food 

 consisted of a hundred pounds of mixed bird seed, fifty pounds of 

 beef suet and a hundred cocoanuts. The latter make admirable 

 feeding stations when one end of the nut is cut away, the interior 

 filled with chopped suet and the whole suspended in a horizontal 

 position from a limb by means of a wire. 



It was announced that the club now has a membership of one 

 hundred and six, including two life members, and that new mem- 

 bers are constantly joining. 



Farmers Bulletin 609, recently issued by the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, deals with the subject of " Bird Houses and How 

 to Build Them," by Mr. Ned Dearborn. It also includes sugges- 

 tions for attracting and feeding birds ; providing suitable materials 

 for nest building, such as certain birds have shown a liking for, etc. 

 The Bulletin is profusely and admirably illustrated and contains 

 exactly the practical information which bird lovers need to know. 

 It is interesting to note the statement by the author that * # "the 

 use of houses by birds which until recently had persistently ignored 

 them is surprising and must be considered a victory for those who 

 have studiously attempted to enlarge their circle of feathered 

 neighbors." 



Accessions to the museum and library have been received 

 from the following persons during the past month : Wm. T. Davis, 

 Adeline T. Hollick, Arthur Hollick, Harry Leaney, New Brighton ; 

 Herman Rossbach, West New Brighton ; John B. Pearson, George 

 W. Tuttle, Tompkinsville ; Harold Nichols, Mariners Harbor ; 

 Laura K. Cropsey, Green Ridge ; Frances M. Tollett, Great Kills ; 

 H. H. Cleaves, Princes Bay ; Mary Beyer, Tottenville ; Art Com- 

 mission, New York City. 



