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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, April 21, 1917, at 8:15 

 o'clock. 



Mr. A. A. Michell will deliver a lecture, illustrated by 

 means of lantern slides, on The Ruined Abbeys of England and 

 the Destruction of Monasticism. 



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. 



Recent elections to active membership in the Association 

 by the Board of Trustees are Henry A. Ahrens, Mrs. Henry 

 A. Ahrens, Stapleton; Ernest H. Heath, West New Brighton; 

 Josephine S. Sperrle, Oscar E. Sperrle, John C. Welsh, H. A. 

 Witte, Mrs. H. A. Witte, West New Brighton. 



Mr. F. C. Havemeyer was elected a patron of the Asso- 

 ciation in recognition of the gift to the Museum of his collec- 

 tion of mounted animal heads, horns and skins. 



On Sunday, April 1, fourteen members of theTorrey Botani- 

 cal Club of New York visited the Museum by special invitation of 

 the Director and spent the afternoon inspecting and studying cur 

 herbarium and other botanical collections. 



The March course of Friday afternoon lectures for child- 

 ren, the schedule of which was printed in the February Bulletin, 

 was attended by a total of 508, and on several occasions the seat- 

 ing capacity of the assembly room was insufficient to accommo- 

 date all who wished to be admitted. The total attendance for the 

 season was 2,655 



The interest of the children in the Museum is recognized as 

 a valuable asset, and in order that their interest may be retained 

 now that the lecture season has closed, Mr. Cleaves has provided 

 a registration book in which all children who visit the Museum 

 during the months of April to September inclusive may inscribe 

 their names. At the end of each month the ten children whose 

 names appear oftenest on the register will be photographed and 

 their photographs will be posted on a bulletin board provided for 

 the purpose in the local biology room. 



Some of our members expressed surprise at the number oi 

 persons who visited the Museum during the past two years, as 

 published in the February Bulletin. The following statistics 



