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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, January 19, 1918, at 8.15 o'clock. 



Ice phenomena at Prince's Bay during the recent cold spell 

 will be described by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, illustrated with pho- 

 tographs and lantern slides. 



Contributions on local natural history subjects will be pre- 

 sented by several members of the Section of Natural Science. 



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. 



It is with more or less trepidation that the customary 

 notice is issued for the regular meeting of the Association at 

 the Museum this month. The fuel situation is acute, as it is 

 in connection with most other buildings, public and private, 

 causing constant apprehension and discomfort, and interfering 

 seriously with the proper maintenance of the Museum and the 

 prosecution of its activities. The difficulty of obtaining coal and 

 the necessity for economizing it has rendered adequate heating 

 of the building impossible. During the late cold wave, on the 

 nights of December 30 and 31 and January 1, when the record- 

 breaking temperature of 14 degrees below zero was reached, the 

 water in some of the fire buckets in the main hall of the Museum 

 froze solid and they had to be thawed out each morning. For 

 three days certain of the water pipes were frozen but, fortunately, 

 without any damage resulting. All permits for the use of the 

 assembly room were cancelled and the Friday afternoon lectures 

 for children were omitted until further notice. The Museum has 

 not been closed, however, although during the three coldest days 

 only the most necessary routine work could be prosecuted, and 

 that under trying conditions of discomfort. 



At the regular December meeting of the Association the 

 resolution in regard to changing the name of the Association to 

 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences was adopted, and 

 the Board of Trustees has since taken steps to secure the 

 legislative action necessary to legalize the change. 



