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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, January 20, 1917, at 

 8:15 o'clock. 



Mr. Francis D. Murphy will give an illustrated lecture on 

 the African animals represented in the collection of mounted 

 heads and other zoological specimens recently presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. F. C. Havemeyer. 



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. 



The offer of Mr. F. C. Havemeyer to donate to the Museum 

 his collection of animal heads, horns, skins, etc., and our accept- 

 ance of the offer, was announced at the December meeting of the 

 Association. On December 27 the collection was received at the 

 Museum. It includes mounted heads of waterbuck, wildebeeste, 

 hartebeeste, black rhinoceros, eland oryx, impala, kudu and sev- 

 eral species of gazelle, from Africa ; elk, moose, caribou, black- 

 tail deer, pronghorn antelope, mountain sheep and black bear, 

 from North America, besides a fine specimen of tarpon and a 

 number of skins, skulls and horns, tusks, etc. 



This is by far the most extensive and valuable zoological 

 donation thus far made to the Museum, and it affords a concrete 

 example of the urgent necessity for an adequate sized, fireproof 

 building in which this and our other collections may be properly 

 arranged, displayed and safeguarded. 



The December course of Friday afternoon illustrated lec- 

 tures for school children, arranged by Mr. Cleaves, was as follows: 



December 1, How to keep well, Dr. John S. Ware; Decem- 

 ber 8, Teeth, Dr. Robert H. Pentz ; December 15. The Arabs, 

 Mr. Francis D. Murphy; December 22, Some Christmas music, 

 Miss Edith M. Pollard; December 29, Drawing pictures, Miss 

 Helen E. Cleaves. 



The January schedule is as follows: January 5, Training 

 for the trades, Mr. Morris E. Siegel ; January 12, The People of 

 the Nile, Mr. Francis D. Murphy ; January 19, Uncle Sam's Navy, 

 Mr. John C. Welsh ; January 26, Lighthouses, Mr. Guy B. Skinner. 



Mr Murphy's lecture on Junuary 12 was repeated in order 

 to accommodate all who wished to attend, and the assembly 

 room was twice filled to the limit of its seating capacity. An 

 assembly room to seat at least two hundred is urgently needed. 



