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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, March 19, 1915, at 

 8:15 o'clock. The program will be under the auspices of the 

 Section of Art. Mr. David Varon will deliver an address on 

 " The Appreciation of Architecture," accompanied by crayon 

 sketches. 



Visitors are welcome at all regular meetings of the Associa- 

 tion and members are urged to bring to the meetings any friends 

 who may express a desire to attend. Arthur Hollick 



Secretary. 



Among the recent accessions of historical interest now on 

 display are : From Mrs. James Cornell, the hickory walking 

 stick, presented by Andrew Jackson ("Old Hickory"), on the 

 day of his first inauguration as president of the United States 

 to William H. Seward and from him, through several other 

 parties, to the late James Cornell, of Staten Island ; and from 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, an old-fashioned solid mahogany cradle, made 

 previous to 1860 and in use for about two decades subsequently 

 in his family. 



A life group of the American sparrow hawk has been 

 added to the local biology room on the first floor of the Museum. 

 This makes a companion to the case showing the downy wood- 

 pecker in nesting time, both groups illustrating the fact that 

 the birds dealt with lay their eggs in tree cavities. Both the 

 sparrow hawk and downy woodpecker are familiar birds of 

 Staten Island, being present the year round. 



The new art loan exhibit installed about the middle of 

 February by the ladies of the committee has proven to be in- 

 teresting from several points of view, though the articles loaned 

 were most difficult of arrangement, because of their miscellane- 

 ous character. The experiment was tried of asking each mem- 

 ber of the Association for one article considered by the owner 

 to be interesting— artistically or historically speaking — and this 

 brought out a great variety of articles, although the number of 

 members contributing toward the loan was not so large as had 

 been hoped. The exhibit fills four cases and part of a fifth in the 

 arts and archeology room, while on the walls are hung, in 

 addition, a large photograph of the American osprey or fishhawk, 

 loaned by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, and two photographic repro- 

 ductions of letters from George Washington and Robert Morris, 



