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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, April 20, 1918, at 8.15 o'clock. 



Captain Francis D. Murphy will deliver an address on Big 

 Game Hunting in the Soudan, based upon personal experiences. 



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 Director takes pleasure in acknowledging, with the 

 thanks of the Museum staff, the receipt of a French, a German, 

 and a Latin dictionary from Mr. Stafford C. Edwards, donated in 

 response to the appeal printed in the March issue of the Bulletin. 

 A Spanish dictionary also has recently come into our possession. 



Those who are not familiar with the multifarious activities 

 connected with Museum duties do not realize the many ways in 

 which certain much needed commonplace items, such as many of 

 our members could easily supply, would be of practical value in 

 economizing time and labor, promoting efficiency, and producing 

 desired results. A list of desiderata will be issued as soon as we are 

 installed in our new building, and in this way our members will be 

 afforded opportunity to render material assistance to the museum 

 staff in their effort to make the institution as attractive and as 

 important an educational feature of the community as possible. 



Now that the phenomenal cold weather of last winter is a 

 thing of the past and the coal shortage is not an immediate source 

 of worry, it may be noted that our Museum did not suffer to the 

 same extent as did some others. From the Museum News of the 

 Children's Museum of Brooklyn, for February and March, the 

 following item in this connection is abstracted : 



" Not until the last shovelful was in the furnace, and the 

 dealers reluctantly admitted that no more coal was obtainable, did 

 we close the Museum to the public, on Demember 29. That night 

 the mercury sank to six degrees below zero, subjecting the 

 plumbing and heating to the severest strain in its history . . . 

 Fortunately none of the exhibits were injured by water from 

 bursting pipes, though the damage to plumbing was considerable. 

 The work of replacing pipes and radiators began the next Mon- 

 day, the employees of the building wearing gloves and outside 

 wraps at their indoor work . . . Coal arrived on February 1, 

 enabling us to open the Museum on February 2, with five tons 

 on hand." 



In other words they were under the necessity of closing for 

 about six weeks, whereas our period of enforced closure was for 

 one week only, beginning at about the time when the Brooklyn 

 museum was able to reopen. 



