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Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Among the many objects recently brought to the Museum 

 was a domestic pigeon with a red band of some flexible material 

 around one leg and around the other an aluminum band stamped 

 with the number 52. We were informed that it had been found 

 dead, on the morning of July 29, on the premises of Mr. James 

 Farley, Lafayette Avenue, New Brighton. Doubtless the owner 

 would be interested in the facts above recorded. 



A recent valuable gift to the library which we have been 

 unable to acknowledge to the donor, is a collection of what are 

 apparently old French documents, in manuscript, written during 

 the period included in the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. 

 They were deposited under the front door mat and were dis- 

 covered one morning by the janitor. The donor either neglected 

 to or was too modest to leave his name and we have had to enter 

 the gift in our list of accessions as contributed by "Anony- 

 mous." If Anonymous will reveal his name and address we 

 shall be greatly obliged, and suitable acknowledgement will be 

 transmitted. 



Since the last list of donors was published in the Bulletin 

 gifts to the Museum collections and to the Library have been re- 

 ceived from the American Museum of Natural History, Howard 

 R. Bayne, Barbara Brown, John Carlin, Howard H. Cleaves, the 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, George Colton, Emer- 

 son Crouch, T. F. Curley, Harold K. Decker, Edward C. Delavan, 

 Jr., Gustav Grabe, John Hall, Martin Harris, Harry Haywood, 

 J. Blake Hillyer, Arthur Hollick, S. Jennie Kingsley, Francis Mc- 

 Callan, William Meese, Bernard Mills, Ira K. Morris, Raymond R. 

 Morris, Museum of the American Indian, Miss Elizabeth Ogilby, 

 Charles L. Pollard, Carl Richter, Wirt Robinson, Staten Island 

 Antiquarian Society, J. Wilbur Vaughn, Junior Volkhardt, Arthur 

 Walser, Douglas Walsh, Laura B. Yetman. 



