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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



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

 place, St. George, on Friday evening, December 18, 1914, at 

 8:15 o'clock. Mr. L. R. E. Paulin, of the New York World, will 

 give a descriptive address on " The Making of a Newspaper." 



Visitors are welcome at all regular meetings of the Associa- 

 tion, and members are urged to bring any friends who may ex- 

 press a desire to attend. Light refreshments are served and an 

 informal reception is held, by the Woman's Auxiliary Committee, 

 after the adjournment of each meeting. Arthur hollick, 



Secretary. 



Since the previous issue of the Bulletin the Board of Trus- 

 tees has elected the following to active membership in the Asso- 

 tion : Russell H. Loines, Dongan Hills ; Dane E. Rianhard, New 

 Brighton ; Mrs. Anton L. Schwab, Tompkinsville ; Elting C. Still- 

 well, Linoleumville ; William J. Noonan, West New Brighton. 



A new ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees is Mr. 

 James J. Reynolds, who has succeeded Mr. William A. Boylan as 

 District Superintendent of Schools for this Borough. 



At the suggestion of the Board of Trustees the attention of 

 the members is called to the advisability of enrolling in one or 

 another of the several sections of the Association— Biology, Art, 

 Historical Research, Engineering or Music— according to the sub- 

 ject in which they may be especially interested. Any request for 

 enrollment may be transmitted to the Secretary, who will forward 

 it to the recorder of the section indicated. Members will then 

 receive notices of all meetings of the section or sections in which 

 they may be enrolled. 



The first course of illustrated Friday afternoon lectures for 

 school children was terminated as follows : November 20, "Plants 

 that Make Coal," Dr. Hollick ; November 27, " Corn and Wheat," 

 Mr. Cleaves. 



The first two lectures of the second course were : December 

 4, " Explorers and Founders of America," Miss Mary D. Lee ; 

 December 11, "The Early History of New York," by the same 

 lecturer. Miss Lee, who is assistant curator in the Children's 

 Museum of Brooklyn, will also deliver the third lecture of the 

 course, and our museum will reciprocate through an exchange 

 of three lectures in Brooklyn by Mr. Cleaves. 



The second lecture of Miss Lee's series, on December 11, 



