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



Mr. Frank C. Kaye will give an illustrated description of 

 the black fox industry in the maritime provinces of Canada, in- 

 cluding an exhibition of pelts and an account of the breeding of 

 fur bearing animals in captivity in the United States. 



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 fuel situation apparently reached the climax of its 

 seriousness last month when the Museum, for the first time in 

 its history, was temporarily closed to the public from February 

 6 to 13 inclusive, by reason of the impossibility of obtaining 

 coal. Since the latter date we have been able to obtain small 

 amounts from time to time and, although on several occasions 

 the supply became exhausted, the Museum was not again closed, 

 even though the heating of the building was inadequate and but 

 little work could be accomplished other than that of sorting and 

 packing preparatory to removal to our new quarters. 



War conditions have interfered with the Museum activities 

 in many ways, occasionally in some manner entirely unexpected. 

 Last month, for example, we were unable to replenish our stock 

 of manila envelopes for mailing the Bulletin and were under 

 the necessity of utilizing the few that remained and any others 

 that were available at the time. Copies of this issue were, there- 

 fore, mailed to members of the Association only, and exchanges 

 and others who were unavoidably omitted from last month's 

 mailing list will find the February Bulletin enclosed with the 

 current number. 



