jitateu Island gtsscrriatiou of ^.rts and Sciences 
(Formerly Natural Science Association of Staten Island) 
HEW BRIGHTON, BOROUGH OF RICHMOND, NEW YORK CITY 
MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, ROOM 309 
BOROUGH HALL 
HOWARD R. BAYNE, PRESIDENT 
ARTHUR HOLLICK, SECRETARY 
C. A. INGALLS, TREASURER 
CHARLES LOUIS POLLARD, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 
OFFICE HOURS: TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS 
and Saturday mornings 
June 15, 1908. 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
My dear Mr. Deane 
I received your pleasant letter today, and was very glad 
to hear from you again. My present work will be indicated to you by the above heading. I 
came to Staten Island just a year ago, having completed my dictionary work in Springfield. 
I have been very busy throughout the year in preparing for the public opening of our museum, 
which took place last month. We received an appropriation for equipment from the city, and 
are looking forward next year to a permanent maintenance appropriation in conformity with 
the other insitutions here. Staten Island has never had a public museum, and there seems 
to be a good future before us. 
With regard to your membership in the V/ild Flower Preservation Society of America, all 
I can say is that you have been on our list of members since the organization, and were at 
one time a trustee. I suppose you joined in the same manner as the other subscribers to 
The Plant World, which was originally the organ of the Society. I hope you will continue to 
belong, as the dues arc only fifty cents a year, and the work which we are doing does not 
duplicate that of the Society for the Protection of native Plants but rather supplements it, 
I thank you for your kind invitation, and shall remember it when I visit Boston again. 
In the mean time, I hope you will look me up when you pass through New York with a few hours 
to spare. 
Curator-in-chief. 
