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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuyves- 

 ant place, St. George, on Friday Evening, April 16, 1915, at 

 8:15 o'clock. 



The program will be under the the auspices of the Section of 

 Engineering, Architecture and Allied Professions. Mr. L. L. Tribus 

 will deliver an illustrated lecture on "Travel Notes on Water Sup- 

 ply, Ancient and Modern." 



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. 



The third and final course of free illustrated lectures for 

 school children, for the season 1914-1915, was scheduled to end on 

 Friday March 12, with Mr. Cleaves' lecture on " Attracting Birds 

 in Summer " ; but on the day of the lecture the children in attend- 

 ance prepared and signed a petition for another. They were as- 

 sured that one would be arranged, and subsequently Mr. Dwight 

 Franklin generously volunteered his services and, on the follow- 

 ing Friday afternoon, gave a talk on " Frogs and Toads of Staten 

 Island," illustrated with crayon sketches, on which occasion ninety- 

 two children attended. 



Recent elections to active membership in the Association by 

 the Board of Trustees are Charles Rosenberg, Stapleton ; Thomas 

 A. Letts, New Brighton Stephen L. Mershon, Montclair, N. J., 

 qualified as a life member. 



A rearrangement of cases in the geology room has been 

 effected, so as to bring the general mineralogical collection into 

 the middle of the room, where the light is best. A number of fine 

 specimens of gold ores not heretofore on display have been added 

 and placed where they may be seen to good advantage. 



Of timely interest to those who wish to do what they may in 

 the direction of repairing injuries to trees is a recently issued 

 pamphlet on " Practical Tree Surgery." by J. Franklin Collins, re- 

 printed from the Yearbook of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture for 1913, and designated " Y. B. Separate 622." It 

 describes the objects of and methods in tree surgery ; the proper 

 way to cut off diseased or broken limbs and branches ; how to ex- 

 cavate, treat and fill cavities ; how to bolt and guy trees that have 

 split or are in danger of splitting, etc. The illustrations are well 



