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suggested that the Commissioner put the Lorillard Mansion 

 in Bronx Park in the care of this Society, for a museum and 

 other purposes of the Society in its work in the interests of the 

 public. The Commissioner received the suggestion very hos- 

 pitably and expressed himself as being favorable to the plan, 

 providing the Society would undertake to maintain the build- 

 ing and fulfill the necessary conditions. 



The members of the Council were enthusiastic at this pro- 

 posal and discussed its possibilities and the ways and means to 

 accomplish it, recognizing the great opportunity it afforded to 

 enter upon a wide field of activity, properly belonging to the 

 Society and contemplated by it from its inception, and they 

 were unanimously in favor of adopting it if it could be accom- 

 plished. 



On motion the chair was authorized to appoint a committee 

 of three to make a careful investigation into the expense of 

 maintaining the house for the purposes of the Society's work, 

 to confer with the Park Commissioner as to the conditions, and 

 to consider the possibility of getting the financial aid. 



The Chairman appointed Messrs. Stoughton, Stonebridge 

 and Davis as this Committee. 



NOVEMBER 7, 1907. 

 Meeting of the Council. 



Mr. Arthur A. Stoughton submitted a letter from Mr. 

 Victor H. Paltsits, State Historian, who said: "If the Society 

 secures the building (Lorillard Mansion), I shall try to help it 

 in obtaining some loan collections in anthropologic lines. If 

 the Society should wish to make exhibitions on the history 

 of printing, on book bindings and leather, on book illustration, 

 etc., I could help considerably." The letter was received and 

 placed on file. 



A letter was received from the Secretary, Prof. Arthur B. 

 Lamb, stating that Chancellor MacCracken had suggested lec- 

 tures upon vital statistics in The Bronx. Such questions as 

 the religious development, the public schools, the water supply, 



