The Museum [ 31 ] display of the Society's bicentennial exhibitions, they will be revised and condensed to make way for new additions in 1974. Audubon and His World, the chief effort of the museum department in 1972 was abridged in this year and a new installation of Audubon's watercolors of birds, incorporating a large number of the most important paintings, shines forth in the south gallery on the second floor. There, for the first time, a new system of museum lighting has been installed to provide brilliant illumination for Audubon's "433 part miracle" a characterization provided by John Canaday. To honor this year's mayoral election, an exhibition showing the appearance of all of New York's mayors since 1784 was installed in one of the first-floor temporary galleries early in October. It was succeeded in December by Old New York in Early Photographs marking the appearance of Dover's book of the same title, a selection from the Society's old photographs of the city compiled by Mary Black. Continuing a traveling exhibition supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a selection of 340 of the Society's fine glass paperweights toured the state; they were shown at the Albany Institute of History and Art (the first stop for the exhibition), at Syracuse's Everson Museum, Utica's Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, at the Hudson River Museum at Yonkers, and at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, where the show will end its year-long run. We continued this year our cooperative endeavor with the New York State Council on the Arts, presenting two-and-a-half-day seminars on museum operation to administrators and curators selected from museums and historical societies throughout the state. Just before Christmas a small display honoring the sesquicentennial of the first appearance in print of Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was installed. The end of this year marks the retirement of Edward Santrucek after thirty-five years as museum technician. His many skills and his meticulous execution of them have been widely seen and commended during his years here and will be sorely missed in the future. Also retiring is William Baillie, engineer, after thirty-five years at the Society. For the last decade Mr. Baillie has been the expert who lighted our museum exhibitions further enhancing our fine materials. We have