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Museum Bulletin 



THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION 



will be held in the assembly room of the Museum, 154 Stuyvesant 

 Place, Saint George, on Saturday evening, December 16, 1916, at 

 8:15 o'clock. 



J. Q. Adams, chairman of the committee on the pro- 

 posed new museum building, will report upon progress made in 

 providing ways and means for its location and erection. Infor- 

 mation of interest will be announced, and members are urged to 

 attend the meeting in order that they may become acquainted 

 with this important movement for the expansion of the Museum 

 and its activities and its possibilities in connection with the future 

 development and usefulness of the Association. 



Doctor Arthur Hollick will present a brief statement of the 

 relations v/hich obtain between the City and the Association and 

 explain the functions of each in providing for the instruction of 

 the public through the medium of the Museum. 



Visitors are welcome at all regular meetings of the Asso- 

 ciation, and members are urged to invite any friends who may 

 express a desire to attend. Light refreshments are served and an 

 informal reception is held by the Women's Auxiliary Committee 

 after the adjournment of each meeting. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



At the last stated meeting of the Board of Trustees Messrs. 

 Louis W. Kaufman and J. Stenzel were elected to active member- 

 ship in the Association. 



The silver communion service, owned by the Trinity M. E. 

 Church of West New Brighton, shown at the last meeting of the 

 Association, has been placed on exhibition in the main hallway 

 of the Museum. It consists of a tankard and two goblets, each 

 of the latter having the engraved inscription 

 Presented to the Church 

 by D. Mersereau, Esqr 

 for the Communion 

 1816 

 These interesting articles have been loaned to the Associa- 

 tion and deposited in the Museum as a permament exhibit by the 

 officials of the church in accordance with a suggestion to that 

 effect by Mersereau Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo- 

 lution. 



A recent donation to the Museum, from Miss Lucy J. 

 Kipper, which has been placed on display in the main hallway, is 

 a large framed, colored lithograph, representing a view down 

 Maiden Lane, taken from the corner of Broadway. The date is 

 not given, unfortunately ; but the old Broadway stages, the maze 

 of overhead telegraph wires, and the fashions in dress which are 



