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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, St. George, on SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 

 1916, at 8:15 o'clock. Reports will be presented by the officers 

 of the Association and the Board of Trustees ; five trustees are 

 to be elected to fill vacancies which will occur by reason of the 

 expiration of the terms of office of John Quincy Adams, Edward 

 Willard Brown, Stafford Clarence Edwards, James Richard 

 Walsh and William Goodenow Willcox. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



The annual meeting of the Section of Art will be held in the 

 assembly hall of the Museum on Wednesday evening, May 17, 

 1916, at 8 o'clock. At 8:15 Mr. F. L. Stoddard will give an ad- 

 dress on " Mural Decoration in America." 



Mr. Stoddard is an expert on his subject and has had charge 

 of important mural decorations in public buildings in St. Louis, 

 New York and other cities. He has recently completed the deco- 

 rations for the Eastern District High School in Brooklyn. 



All members of the Association are invited to attend this 

 meeting, and members of the Section of Art are especially urged 

 to be present and to bring with them any friends who may be in- 

 terested in the subject. AGNES L . PoL lard, 



Recorder. 



At the regular May Meeting of the Staten Island Bird Lovers' 

 Club, held at the Museum on the tenth instant, a general revision 

 of the constitution was discussed and several changes made effec- 

 tive by a vote of the members present. One of the important 

 changes was an alteration in the name of the club, which hereaiter 

 will be Staten Island Bird Club. 



'" Teddy " is with us. He came from the country of the "River 

 of Doubt," being captured by a native and sold to the captain of a 

 river tug on the Amazon. Later he passed into the hands of 

 a member of the crew aboard a steamer plying between South 

 American ports and New York City and was presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. Harry Haywood of Princes Bay. 



Coati (pronounced kc-at'-e) is "Teddy's" real name. His body 

 is one-third the size of a house cat's though he will undoubtedly 

 be larger when fully developed. His face appears to possess the 



