APRIL 15. 1916 

 Meeting of the Council 



Dr. Britton reported in the matter of the collection of poems 

 of Edgar Allan Poe, presented to the Shakespeare Society of 

 New York City some twenty years ago, to be preserved in the 

 Poe Cottage. He further reported that a portion of the col- 

 lection presented by the Municipal Art Society was in the 

 Mansion and would he hung in a few days. 



The matter of a railing around the Poe Memorial in Poe 

 Park was referred to Mr. Albert E. Davis, Chairman of the 

 Council, to confer with Park Commissioner Whittle to ask his 

 cooperation to secure a suitable railing around the monument. 



APRIL 20, 1916 



Annual Meeting of the Society 



The Secretary submitted for the Council the following re- 

 port for the year ending April 20, 1916 (abstract) : 



The Mansion 



In January, 1908, by an agreement with the Park Depart- 

 ment, The Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences came into 

 occupancy of a portion of the first floor of the Lorillard Man- 

 sion in Bronx Park. The rooms were the large room on the 

 south side of the main hall and the smaller room on the north 

 side. Necessary repairs were made to make the rooms habit- 

 able and the Society at once began the work of installing a 

 collection of curios, relics, documents, etc.. relating to the early 

 history of The Bronx. In addition to these, objects of interest 

 relating to the early history of the city of New York and of 

 the colonial history of the country were welcomed as parts of 

 the collection. 



In the early part of the year 19 15, by the provisions of an 

 Act of the Legislature, a section, comprising 140 acres of 

 Bronx Park, then under the jurisdiction of the Park Depart- 



