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of trustees which is represented by a museum committee in immediate 

 charge of the museum. 



Scope. The maintenance of local collections, public school 

 work, and instruction of the general public, supplemented by explora- 

 tion and research by the staff. Loan exhibits are maintained from 

 time to time in the Staten Island branches of the New York Public 

 Library. 



Library. A scientific library of iooo volumes and 2000 pam- 

 phlets is maintained for the use of both staff and public. 



Publications, (i) Proceedings of the Natural Science Associ- 

 ation of Staten Island; this series is complete in 9 volumes issued from 

 1883 to 1905. (2) Proceedings of the Staten Island Association of 

 Arts and Sciences, 2 parts issued annually, 4 parts making a volume; 

 volume I was completed in May, 1907. 



Attendance. Open to members at all times and open free to the 

 public from 10 to 5 on Saturdays, and from 1 to 5 on Tuesdays, Wed- 

 nesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. The total attendance for the first 

 six months was 1512; for the succeeding five months, 1876. 



NEW YORK CITY: 



ACADEMY MT. ST. VINCENT. 



This academy has a museum which includes the Arnold collection 

 of about 1000 minerals, somewhat increased by subsequent additions; 

 the Benjamin F. Joslin collection of minerals and shells; the John 

 Gilmary Shea collection of about 400 coins; the John Fox collection of 

 corals; etc. 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Staff. Director, Hermon C. Bumpus; Curator emeritus, Albert 

 S. Bickmore (public education); Honorary curators, George F. Kunz 

 (gems), William M. Wheeler (social insects), Alexander Petrunkevitch 

 (arachnida), Aaron L. Treadwell (annulata); Curators, E. O. Hovey 

 (geology and invertebrate paleontology), L. P. Gratacap (mineralogy 

 and mollusca), Henry E. Crampton (invertebrate zoology), J. A. Allen 

 (mammalogy and ornithology), Frank M. Chapman (ornithology), 

 Henry F. Osborn (vertebrate paleontology), Clark Wissler (anthro- 

 pology), Ralph W. Tower (physiology; books and publications), 

 Charles E. A. Winslow (public health), George H. Sherwood (public 

 education); Associate curators, W. D. Matthew (vertebrate paleon- 

 tology), Pliny E. Goddard and Harlan I. Smith (anthropology), 

 William Beutenmuller (lepidoptera) ; Assistant curators, Roy W. Miner 



