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ing of the Council, with the results as shown in the new furni- 

 ture and decoration and repairs of the two rooms now in use, 

 and the objects placed in the cases and on the walls. The 

 walls of the main first floor gallery and rear room, have been 

 tinted and picture moulding put up, shelving put in place in the 

 two spaces at the east end of the long gallery to receive the 

 volumes left to this Society by the Bronx Free Library, and 

 three cases have been made. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have been 

 given living quarters in the building and have attended to the 

 cleaning and care of the rooms, and Mrs. Parsons has super- 

 vised them during the open hours from 2 till 5 daily. During 

 the summer months there have been on an average of 100 

 visitors on week days and 500 on Sunday. 



Among the articles contributed to the collection as gifts or 

 loans are eight framed photographic groups of scenes in 

 Bronx Park and View of Colonial Gardens, Van Cortlandt 

 Park, loaned by Commissioner Joseph I. Berry ; a collection of 

 original designs by George E. Stonebridge ; historic Bronx 

 photographs loaned by Randall Comfort; two mosaic plaques 

 loaned by Henry Wright ; rocks, minerals, shells mosses, lichens 

 cannon ball, cane, etc., by Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton, George 

 Smith, Mr. Angus and Mr. Willis; collection of rare prints 

 loaned by J. Clarence Davies ; Bronx photographs loaned by 

 George E. Stonebridge ; collection of moths and butterflies, the 

 gift of W. E. Hallett and Eugene Stevens; Anglo-Saxon an- 

 tiquities donated by Victor H. Paltsits ; historic relics from 

 Fort William Henry, also Indian and Colonial relics, including 

 cannon balls, powder horn, tomahawk, pestle, spurs, buttons, 

 ring, etc., loaned by Reginald Pelham Bolton; plan of opera- 

 tions of the King's Army, copper cents from 1793 to 1857, 

 memorandum of appraisal of Pell property, stock certificate of 

 Harlem Canal Co., 1830, loaned by J. Clarence Davies; letter 

 from General Sigel to President Lincoln and from President 

 Lincoln to General Sigel loaned by Franz Sigel ; photographs 

 of Bronx schools donated by A. T. Schauffier; six exhibits 

 illustrating the evolution of a piano by Winter & Co., and 



