Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



On Saturday evening, November 27, Doctor and Mrs. 

 Nathaniel L. Britton were the guests of honor at a compli- 

 mentary dinner tendered to them by the Board of Trustees, 

 in recognition and appreciation of their gift to the Association 

 of the Britton Cottage at New Dorp and their many other 

 evidences of interest in the activities of the Association. 



Those present were Dr. and Mrs. Britton, Hon. Howard R. 

 Bayne, Miss Mary A. M. Bayne, Hon. Calvin D. Van Name and 

 Mrs. Van Name, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mitchill, Dr. and Mrs. 

 John Q. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Willcox, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Charles A. Ingalls, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Hollick, Mrs. James R. 

 Walsh, Miss Agnes L. Pollard, Mr. William T. Davis, Mr. ^S. 

 McKee Smith and Mr. Howard H. Cleaves. 



The Staten Island Bird Lovers' Club held a meeting in the 

 assembly hall of the Museum on the afternoon of December 8. 

 About twenty-five members were present, including some juniors. 



Mr. Cleaves, as chairman of the committee on ways of at- 

 tracting birds, reported that a hundred " loaded cocoanut " feed- 

 ing devices, containing fifty pounds of suet, had been prepared 

 and were being distributed among the members. Ten of these 

 devices, it was stated, had been placed in the grounds of the 

 Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp. 



Mr. Cleaves also reported that Dr. N. L. Britton had co- 

 operated with the club in furnishing ample funds with which to 

 install food stations and nesting boxes in the grounds surround- 

 ing the Britton Cottage on New Dorp Lane. A part of the equip- 

 ment is already in position. 



A statement giving results from the eleven Berlepsch nest 

 boxes which were placed in the Moravian Cemetery on May 19, 

 1915, showed that all but one of the houses had be used either 

 as a nesting or a roosting place ; and that probably not fewer 

 than thirty-four young birds had been reared in the boxes during 

 the rather brief season — the majority of these being wrens. 

 None of the nesting boxes had been used by English sparrows 



Since the last issue of the Bulletin accessions to the 

 Museum collections and Library have been received from the 

 American Numismatic Society, Hon. Howard R. Bayne, Mrs. E. L. 

 Blake, A. H. Cleaves, Howard H. Cleaves, Mrs. James L. Devlin, 

 John Hall, Arthur Hollick, Raymond R. Morris, W. S. Rockwell, 

 George W. Tuttle, Mrs. Caroline V. R. Wright. 



The more noteworthy of these were exhibited and com- 

 mented upon at the November meeting of the Association. 



