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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held on SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1916 

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

 154 Stuyvesant Place, Saint George. 



Mr. James P. Chapin will deliver a lecture, illustrated 

 with colored lantern slides, on " Five Years in Blackest Africa." 

 Mr. Chapin was a member of the Congo exploring expedition 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, which departed 

 from New York in 1909 and returned in 1915. During that 

 time there was a period of about two years when nothing was 

 heard from the expedition, and our members may recall the 

 interest that was aroused at the meeting of the Association 

 held on December 20, 1913, when a letter from Mr. Chapin 

 was read, dated Avakubi, Congo, October 7, 1913, announcing 

 his safe arrival there on his way home. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



The Next Stated Meeting of the Section of Applied 

 Science will be held on Saturday evening, April 1, 1916. 



Mr. O. H. Ammann, assistant chief engineer of the New 

 York Connecting Railroad, will deliver a lecture, illustrated by 

 means of lantern slides, on " The Hell Gate Bridge Develop- 

 ment." Mr. Ammann assisted in the designing, construction 

 and method of erection of the bridge and is thoroughly familiar 

 with the engineering features and problems of the work. 



George L. Mitchill, 



Recorder. 



The fifth course of free illustrated lectures for children 

 began on Friday afternoon, March 3, with a lecture by Miss 

 Jean A. Cross, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, on "Every 

 Day Botany," and on March 10, Mr. J. M. Johnson lectured on 

 " Snakes " and showed, by means of a number of live specimens, 

 how harmless species may be tamed and handled. 



The remainder of the course is as follows: March 17, 

 "Hawaii, the Paradise of the Pacific," by Miss Mary D. Lee; 

 March 24, "Adventures afield with Wild Birds," by Mr. Her- 

 bert K. Job; March 31, "The Haunts of Nature," by Mr. 

 Edward F. Bigelow. 



