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JAMESTOWN: 



JAMES PRENDERGAST FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Art 

 Gallery. 



By provision of the will of Mary Norton Prendergast, the sum of 



$25,000 was, in 1889, bequeathed to the association to be expended for 



"oil paintings — works of art," to be placed in the art gallery in the 



library building. In addition to the pictures thus purchased the family 



portraits and other paintings from the Prendergast home have a 



place in the gallery. 



JOHNSTOWN: 



JOHNSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



In addition to a small library of local history, the society main- 

 tains a museum in the Sir William Johnson mansion. The collections 

 are in charge of a caretaker, and are open free to the public on week- 

 days from 1 to 4. 



LAKE GEORGE: 



NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



The society reports that it holds valuable collections, but does 

 not maintain a museum. 



NEW BRIGHTON: 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 

 Public Museum. 



Staff. Curator-in-chief, Charles Louis Pollard; Honorary cura- 

 tors, William T. Davis (zoology), Philip Dowell (botany), Arthur 

 Hollick (geology and paleontology), John Q. Adams (art); Honorary 

 assistants, James Chapin (zoology), Alanson B. Skinner (anthro- 

 pology); Assistant, Agnes L. Pollard. 



Anthropology. Archeology, native, i5,ooo±; Ethnology, na- 

 tive, 5oo±. This department includes one of the most complete 

 collections in existence of Staten Island Indian relics; also the Skinner 

 collection of Iroquois Indian ethnology. 



Art. The art exhibits consist almost entirelv of loan collections, 

 changed from time to time. 



Botany. A herbarium of 7372 mounted and 2ooo± unmounted 

 specimens. The department includes a good collection of seeds and 

 fruits of Staten Island and photographs of Staten Island trees. 



Geography. Copies of practically all maps of Staten Island 



