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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the assembly hall of the Museum, No. 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, Saint George, on SATURDAY EVENING, NOV- 

 EMBER 20, 1915, at 8:15 o'clock. Members of the Section of 

 Historical Research will present communications descriptive of 

 recent accessions of local historical interest. Arthur hollick, 



Secretary. 



The next stated meeting of the Section of Applied Science 

 will be held in the assembly hall of the Museum on Saturday 

 evening, December 4, 1915. Mr. W. G. Hamilton will present a 

 paper on " Certain Features of Hydro-Electric Development." 



The Museum's Friday afternoon lectures for the season 

 1915-16, for school children of the fourth grade and above, began 

 on October 29 with a talk by Mr. Cleaves on " The Bird and the 

 Bird House," illustrated by lantern slides and by examples of good 

 and bad bird house building, from houses made by school children 

 for the contest held last spring under the auspices of the Bird 

 Lovers' Club. 



The second lecture was by Mr. C. H. Rogers, of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, his subject being " Our South 

 American Neighbors." At both of these lectures the assembly 

 room was filled to its capacity, and Mr. Cleaves' talk was 

 given a second time before a large class of children, who with 

 their teachers, had walked to the museum from P.S. 34, at Fort 

 Wadsworth. 



The titles of the remaining lectures to be given during 

 November are as follows: 



November 12. " Haiti— the Black Republic." Mr. Norman 

 Taylor, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



November 19. "Whales and Other Sea Animals." Mr. 

 Robert Cushman Murphy, of the Brooklyn Museum. 



November 26. "Six Months in the Arizona Desert." Mr. 

 Dwight Franklin. 



The December course will be announced later. 



A new exhibit, recently installed in the Geology and Local 

 Anthropology room, shows a variety of stones shaped by natural 

 agencies, but bearing so close a resemblance to the stone imple- 

 ments made and used by the Indians as to deceive any but the 

 most expert student of Indian artifacts. 



