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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, October 20, 1917, at 8.15 o'clock. 



In accordance with the policy approved by the Program 

 Committee the October meeting is, as usual, reserved for any com- 

 munications of general interest that members may be prepared to 

 present. 



Recent important accessions to the museum collection and 

 library will be shown and briefly discussed by the Director. 



The museum exhibit, prepared and installed in connection 

 with the Mayor's Aqueduct Celebration Committee, will be ex- 

 plained and described. A preliminary list of the items on exhibi- 

 tion is printed on the following page of the Bulletin. 



Visitors are welcome at all regular meetings of the Asso- 

 ciation, and members are urged to invite to the meetings any 

 friends who may express a desire to attend. Light refreshments 

 are served and an informal reception is held by the Woman's 

 Auxiliary Committee after the adjournment of each meeting. 



Chas. W. Leng 



Secretary. 



In the August issue of the Bulletin acknowledgement was 

 made of the gift of a new flag and staff to the Museum, by Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Davis. Since then Mrs. Davis has generously provided 

 a twenty-eight foot, steel pole, to replace the wooden staff, and de- 

 frayed the expenses of its erection. On Columbus Day, Friday 

 October 12, the flag was raised to its new position for the first time. 



The Director is pleased to announce that two subscriptions 

 of $5 00 each have been received, in response to the appeal printed 

 in the August issue of the Bulletin, for contributions to a fund 

 for the purchase of old prints, maps, etc , relating to Staten Island. 

 Several valuable items have been secured ; but others equally valu- 

 able and interesting, deposited on approval at the Museum, could 

 not be purchased by reason of lack of available means. Contribu- 

 tors to this fund may be assured that it will be expended only for 

 the purchase of items of local historical interest. 



At the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees held on 

 October 6 the President was authorized to appoint a committee 

 to arrange a program of exercises to be held in connection with 

 the laying of the corner stone of the new Museum building. 

 As we go to press word is received that the stone will be laid on 

 Saturday afternoon October 20. 



