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, February 17. 1917, at 



8:15 o'clock. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick will give an illustrated lecture on Some 

 Evidences of the Ice Age on and in the Vicinity of Staten Island. 



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. 



Part I of Volume VI of the Proceedings has recently been 

 mailed to all members entitled to receive it. This issue consists 

 entirely of the report of the committee appointed to investigate 

 and report upon the accuracy of all dates and events entered 

 upon the historical tablet in the Borough Hall. It is an interest- 

 ing document which will be found indispensable to anyone who 

 may wish to become acquainted with the most important events 

 in our local history, in their chronological order Citations from 

 authoritive sources of information are freely given, and at the 

 end there is a complete list of all the authorities and publica- 

 tions cited and consulted by the committee in the preparation 

 of the report. 



The question is frequently asked " how many people visit 

 the Museum ? " Our records show a steady increase of about two 

 thousand visitors each year. In 1915 the attendance was 13,263, 

 and in 1916 in was 15,736. These records do not include the 

 attendance at meetings of the Association and its sections or 

 of the several civic organizations which meet in the evenings. 

 The figures represent only the attendance during the hours 

 when the Museum is open to the public. It is also of in- 

 terest to note that 1,024 children attended the Friday afternoon 

 lectures during the months of December and January, the 

 schedules of which were printed in the last Bulletin. 



