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Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Part 2 of volume 6 of the Proceedings, covering the 

 period from February to May 1916, inclusive, was mailed on Jan- 

 uary 11. The leading article, by Arthur Hollick, is an obituary 

 of Sanderson Smith, the first president of the old Natural Science 

 Association of Staten Island in 1881, accompanied by a portrait of 

 Mr. Smith, with his signature, reproduced from a photograph 

 taken at the time when he was the presiding officer of the As- 

 sociation. 



When the edition of the Proceedings was received from 

 the printer the portraits were found to be defective. They 

 were all removed and destroyed and a new issue printed, which 

 explains the reason for the unbound portrait in each number. 



It will doubtless interest our members to learn that there 

 were 19,869 visitors to the Museum during the year 1917. The 

 highest previous record was 15,736 in 1916. We had good reason 

 to hope that the twenty-thousand mark would be reached ; but the 

 inclement weather in December lessened the number anticipated 

 and for the first and only time during the year the monthly 

 attendance was under one thousand. 



The December course of free illustrated lectures for 

 children called forth a total attendance of 213, and an average 

 attendance of 54 for each occasion. The only change in the 

 schedule as printed in the December Bulletin was on Dec- 

 ember 14, when Dr. Arthur Hollick lectured on the Yosemite 

 Valley in place of Mr. Alanson Skinner on Adventures Among 

 Indians. The Christmas Song Rally on December 28, under 

 the direction of Miss Edith M. Pollard, assisted by Miss Ethel 

 Curtis, Miss Lucy Curtis, Mrs. R. S. Armstrong, Mrs. Charles 

 A. Ingalls, and Mrs. Henry A. Craig, vocalists, and Messrs. 

 Robert Craig, Sherman Ingalls and Theodore Koenig, violinists, 

 was attended by 59 children. 



Since the last list of donors was published in the Bulle- 

 tin accessions to the Museum collections and library have been 

 received from Howard H. Cleaves, Miss Bessie E. Davis, Charles 

 N. Dissosway, H. Fredericks, Frank J. Heal J. Blake Hillyer, 

 Arthur Hollick, Mrs. George M. Lillie, Horatio J. Sharrett, and 

 George W. Tuttle. 



