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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held on SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1915, 

 at 8:15 o'clock, in the assembly room of the Museum building, 

 154 Stuyvesant Place, Saint George. Mr. Frank W. Skinner, C. E., 

 will deliver a lecture based upon recent personal experiences and 

 observations in the European war zone, illustrated by lantern 

 slide reproductions of photographs taken in the field, sketches, 

 and drawings from authentic sources. Mr. Skinner designed, 

 supplied and erected structures and devices for hospital, camp 

 and trench protection for the British and Belgian armies, and was 

 employed as consulting engineer to the Crown Prince of Serbia. 

 This will be an unusual opportunity for our members to 

 learn, at first hand, from a trained technical observer, many of 

 the wonderful features of modern military development. Visitors 

 are welcome at all regular meetings of the Association, and mem- 

 bers are urged to invite to the meetings 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. 



THE NEXT STATED MEETING OF THE SECTION OF 

 APPLIED SCIENCE will be held on Saturday evening, January 

 S, 1916, in the assembly room of the Museum. Mr. John T. 

 Fetherston, Commissioner of the Department of Street Cleaning, 

 will deliver an address on City Waste Disposal. Mr. Fetherston 

 has acted as consulting engineer for the city of Chicago on the 

 problem of garbage disposal, and is a recognized authority on 

 the subject of snow removal. George l. Mitchill, 



Recorder. 



The second course of Children's Lectures opened on 

 December 3 with a lecture by Mr. George P. Engelhardt, of 

 the Brooklyn Museum, on "A Visit to the Bahama Islands;" 

 the second lecture being by Mr. John J. Schoonhoven, President 

 of the Department of Zoology of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, on " A Sea-shore Walk with a Naturalist." 



The remaining lectures of the course are as follows 

 December 17, " Studying Birds with the Camera," Mr. B. S. Bow 

 dish ; December 24, " Christmas Folk," Mr. J. L. G. McMahon 

 December 31, "A Boy's First Trip on the New York Ferry," Mr 

 David Varon. 



At the last stated meeting of the Board of Trustees the 

 following were elected to active membership in the Association : 

 W. V. Barnes, Solon J. Stone, New Brighton ; George Sheridan, 

 West New Brighton. 



