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A regular meeting of the Trustees was held on October 6, 1942. At this meeting the budget for 1942-1943 adopted at the last annual meeting was submitted for re-examination, and attention called to certain savings due to the entry of members of the staff into the Armed Forces, thus reducing salary expenditures for the balance of the year. The Board therefore made no alteration in the budget as originally approved. 

At this meeting the Chairman reported that Miss Catherine Van Cortlandt Matthews, together with her sister Mrs. William G. Mason and the latter's daughter, Miss Jean Mason, had joined in donating to the Museum an Indian Bow which in 1682 had belonged to the Kitchawank division of the Wappinger tribe, and which had been in the possession of the direct descendants of the original Van Cortlandts, who had held the specimen in the Van Cortlandt Manor House at Cronton-on-the-Hudson, since shortly after that date. This gift, accompanied by numerous other Indian specimens of historical and scientific value, made by the donors were sufficient to qualify them for election as life members of the Museum and they were accordingly so elected with the thanks of the Trustees for their generosity. 

A regular meeting of the Trustees was held on December 1, 1942. At this meeting the loan of several types of Indian and Eskimo costumes to the Museum of Costume Art for a contemplated exhibition to run for six weeks was duly authorized;