VOL. IV October 1911-May 1912 Parts I and II 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



STATEN ISLAND ASSOCIATION 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



EDITED BY 



PHILIP DOWELL, ARTHUR HOLLICK, WILLIAM T. DAVIS 



PUBLICATION COMMITTEE 



CONTENTS 



Notes on the Seventeen-Year Cicada in 191 1 William T. Davis i 



Notes on the Macrolepidoptera of Staten Island William T. Davis 4 



Bird Photographing on the Coastal Islands of Virginia . . Howard H. Cleaves 6 

 The Work of Professor John B. Smith in Economic Entomology E. L. D|ckerson 17 



John B. Smith as a Coleopterist Charles W. Leng 25 



John B. Smith as a Lepidopterist ... John B. Grossbeck 28 



Bibliography of the Published Writings of Professor John B. Smith 



Compiled by John B. Grossbeck 32 



Literature Relating to Staten Island : 



The Austin Homestead. Prize Shooting for Camera. Two Peculiar Tree 

 Deformities. Progress Reports of Experiments in Dust Prevention and Road 

 Preservation, 1910. The Fireworks Factory at Graniteville. Interesting 

 People ; Leland O. Howard. Staten Island. A Pamphlet on Staten Island 

 Twenty-five Years Ago. The Fair Emprise. On the Structure and Affinities 

 of Two New Conifers and a Fungus from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido 

 (Yezo). Some Remarks on the Cretaceous Fossil Flora and the Causes of 

 Extinction. Howard Henderson Cleaves, Nature Student. , ... 55 



Records of Meetings .... ... 64 



Annual Reports ' 70 



Report of the Section of Biology 82 



Report of the Section of Art , . . . 85 



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