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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, February 16, 1918, at 8.15 o'clock. 



Mr. C. G. Hine will exhibit selections from a collection of 

 war posters and discuss their intended purposes and artistic 

 features. 



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. 



A MEETING OF THE SECTION OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH will 



be held at the Museum on Saturday evening, February 23. 



In accordance with the request of members present at the 

 previous meeting of the Section, Mr. S. L. Mershon will exhibit 

 and discuss certain old and little known s naps of Staten Island 

 and vicinity. <**^^ 



Recent elections to active membership in the Association 

 by the Board of Trustees are Ernest L. Baldwin, Arrochar, and 

 Louis A. Pape, Stapleton. 



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

 tin accessions to the Museum collections and library have been 

 received from Howard R. Bayne, William pc. Davis, Jennie Foote, 

 Francis C. Hagadorn, Arthur Hollick, John W. McKay, Eleanor 

 Miller and John Rader. 



It was with feelings of keenest regret that, by reason of 

 the impossibility of providing the fuel necessary for the heating 

 of the assembly room, the Friday afternoon lectures for children 

 had to be abandoned after the termination of the December 

 course. Scores of children called at the Museum on Fridays in 

 the early part of January, expecting or hoping that the lectures 

 would be continued. In answer to all inquiries the only informa- 

 tion that could be imparted was to the effect that a course would 

 be arranged if conditions should permit, and in that event due 

 notice would be given. 



The first course of these lectures was begun in December 

 1908 and there has been no break in the sequence until this 



