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Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



board installed for the purpose. The names of the April winners 

 are as follows: Richard Daly, Abraham Gerst, Morris Gerst, 

 Esther Ginzburg, Rose Ginzburg, Ruth Goodman, Milton Hoge, 

 Arthur Jacobs, Walter S. Mayer, Jr., Benjamin Neisner. 



Registration continues in a spirited manner through the 

 present month. 



Members are invited to make use more freely of the read- 

 ing table in the library of the Museum, on which will be found 

 current numbers of Recreation, The New Country Life, Bird Lore, 

 The Guide to Nature, The American Museum Journal, and numer- 

 ous other popular periodicals. The visitor interested in art will 

 find the monthly Bulletins published by the Boston Museum of 

 Fine Arts and those of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of 

 Industrial Art. 



The bulletin board in the back part of the lower hall also 

 contains announcements which should interest many persons. 

 Notices of picture and sculpture exhibits at the MacDowell Club 

 and the National Arts Club are posted regularly, as well as other 

 exhibits and announcements of art competitions. At the present 

 time there are several notices of current interest -meetings of 

 civic bodies and classes ; agricultural leaflets from the Cornell 

 School of Agriculture, etc. Other announcements and notices are 

 posted Irom time to time, whenever any matter of general interest 

 is received. 



The Staten Island Bird Club held its May meeting in the 

 Museum library on the afternoon of the ninth. Members reported 

 the return of bluebirds and wrens to nesting boxes which had 

 been put up last season. 



In this connection, and in view of the frequent inquiries 

 made by visitors concering bird boxes and how to erect them, it 

 may be hepful to readers of the Bulletin to know that bird houses 

 of the most approved type may now be secured from a Staten 

 Island source. Two Museum boys, under the name of the B-K 

 Bird House Service, make these houses in their spare time and 

 invite Staten Islanders and others to try them. Detailed informa- 

 tion may be secured at the Museum. 



The American Association of Museums will hold its annual 

 meeting in Manhattan from May twenty-first to the twenty-third, 

 inclusive, with headquarters at the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Many papers of interest are to be given by museum 

 people from various sections of the country, covering all phases 

 of the activities of the modern museum. Anyone interested in 

 these meetings may obtain further information at this Museum. 



