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manners and customs of the Indians of Long Island are represented by 

 an important exhibit in the Brooklyn Institute. Independent of any 

 museum, and of ethnological interest, will be the 125 Indians, men, 

 women and children, from New York reservations, who will participate 

 in the landing of the Half Moon, and in several of the parades. 



The early history of New York and the beginnings of steam navi- 

 gation will be illustrated by an exhibition of views, paintings, manu- 

 scripts, books, etc., shown in the Lenox branch of the New York Public 

 Library, detailed information in regard to the exhibits being offered in 

 a special catalogue. The New York Historical Societ)', in its new 

 building, on Central Park West, corner of Seventy-seventh Street, 

 just below the American Museum of Natural History, exhibits many 

 interesting pictures and relics relating to Eobert Pulton. At the 

 National Arts Club, No. 15 Gramercy Park, the special collection is 

 entitled " Three Hundred Years of New York," and the visitor will 

 see a large number of pictures and other objects illustrating the 

 development of the city and its rapid and marvelous growth. A col- 

 lection of oil paintings and old manuscripts concerning the early his- 

 tory of New York is exhibited by the Genealogical and Biographical 



