Museum Bulletin 



NOTICE TO MEMBERS. 



The July issue of the Bulletin was a source of trouble and 

 uncertainty to editor, members and exchanges. It was prepared 

 at a time when the most important administrative duties of the 

 year demanded our attention, which explains the presence of 

 several typographical errors, and subsequently a mistake was 

 discovered in connection with the mailing. 



Kindly advise the undersigned if you failed to receive 

 your copy of the issue mentioned and one will be transmitted. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



On Saturday, July 24, the Torrey Botanical Club of New 

 York held a field meeting at Great Kills to celebrate the first 

 anniversary of Salt Water Day on Staten Island, which was 

 inaugurated last year with such notable success. Twenty-eight 

 persons, including several members of our Association were in 

 attendance. During the morning the woods between the railroad 

 and the shore were explored. At 1:30 a shore dinner was served 

 at Sauer's Hotel, followed by brief addresses by Dr. Robert A. 

 Harper, president of the Club, Dr. N. L. Britton, representing 

 the New York Botanical Garden and Dr. Arthur Hollick, repre- 

 senting the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, who 

 were introduced by Dr. William Mansfield, of the New York 

 College of Pharmacy. After dinner a trip by motor boat was 

 made to Crooke's Point, where the flora of the sand dunes was 

 studied, and the interesting phenomena of progressive shore 

 erosion and sandspit development were observed and explained. 



In the same mail with this issue of the Bulletin each mem- 

 ber will receive a special notice in regard to preliminary arrange- 

 ments for a " Salt Water Day " on Wednesday, September 8, to 

 which it is hoped there will be an appreciative response. Such 

 meetings afford pleasant opportunities to meet, in an informal 

 and social way, others who are interested in scientific work, either 

 professionally or as amateurs. They are meetings of scientists 

 rather than scientific meetings, and this distinction is readily 

 understood by those who have once attended such a function. 



The public and members of the Association are invited to 

 make more frequent use of the reading table in the Museum 

 Library. The reading matter on this table consists chiefly of 

 popular publications of current interest. Country Life in Amer- 

 ica, the Garden Magazine, Recreation, Bird-Lore, the Guide to 

 Nature, the Game Breeder and the Oregon Sportsman are 

 monthly publications which are kept constantly available for 

 the use of readers. There are also many exchanges, such as 

 the American Museum Journal, and Government Bulletins, as, 

 for example, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard, 

 besides numerous pamphlets of a pertinent and seasonable nature, 

 on Fungi, Edible and Poisonous, House Flies, etc. 



