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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, November 17, 1917, at 8.15 o'clock. 



The following resolutions will be submitted, which will be 

 subject to discussion and action at the regular meeting of the 

 Association in December : 



Resolved, that in view of the prospective future development of the 

 Museum of the Association and the nature of the public educational activities 

 which it maintains and fosters it is advisable that the corporate name of the 

 Association be changed from Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 

 to Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Resolved, that the Board of Trustees be and is hereby requested to 

 take such action as may be necessary to legalize and effect the change in 

 name above suggested, and that the Constitution and By-laws of the Association 

 be thereupon declared amended in conformity therewith. 



Mr. Arthur A. Michell will deliver a lecture on " Egypt, the 

 land of the Pharaohs, an illustrated talk on some recent excava- 

 tions proving that Moses was a correct historian." 



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. 



The November course of free illustrated lectures for 

 children is as follows : 



Nov. 2 — The Grand Canyon of Arizona and the Giant 

 Trees of California, by Dr. Arthur Hollick. Nov. 9 — Historic 

 Battlefields of the Champlain Valley, by Mr. J. W. Wiseman. 

 Nov. 16 — The Island of Hayti and Santo Domingo, by Mr. 

 Norman Taylor. Nov. 23 — Adventures Among the Indians, by 

 Mr. Alanson B. Skinner. Nov. 30 — Notes on Nature Study, by 

 Mr. Walt F. McMahon. 



The lectures on November 2 and November 9 were repeated 

 in order that the children who could not be seated the first time 

 should not be excluded from hearing them. The total attendance 

 at these two lectures was 380. 



Members of the Association, and any residents of Staten 

 Island who are interested in public educational work, are cordially 

 invited to come to the Museum any Friday afternoon at four 

 o'clock and judge of the results that are being accomplished in 

 this connection. 



Recent elections to active membership in the Association 

 by the Board of Trustees are Mary Wood Daley, Stapleton, and 

 Mrs. Frank Smith, New Brighton. Applications for membership 

 should be in the hands of the secretary previous to the next 

 meeting of the Board on December 1. 



