134 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Disbursements 



Sundry expenses (administrative) $ 317.84 



Subscriptions to periodicals 9.50 



Purchase of books 5.25 



Printing Proceedings 244.85 



Expenses, entertainment, American Association of Museums 14.81 



Expenses, Association dinner 219.18 



Dues returned, paid in error 12.00 



Notes paid '. 2,050.00 



Interest and discount on notes 30.08 



$2,903-51 

 Balance in hand 327.06 



The above does not include the accounting in connection with the New 

 York City budget appropriations ($9,000 for the year 1912 and $9,335 for 

 the year 1913) for the maintenance of the museum and the payment of 

 salaries of the museum staff and other employees, which is transacted 

 through the medium of the Department of Finance, according to forms 

 and methods prescribed by the Department. 



Report of the Section of Biology 

 The recorder presented, as a report, the proceedings of the section, as 

 follows: 



December ii, 1912 



A meeting was held on the above date in the trustees' room in the mu- 

 seum, with the chairman, Mr. William T. Davis, presiding, and the follow- 

 ing members present : Charles W. Leng, Alanson Skinner, Charles P. 

 Benedict, Stafford C. Edwards, Charles L. Pollard, John A. Grossbeck 

 and Howard H. Cleaves. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 24 and May 28, 1912, were read 

 and approved. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner read by title a paper on " Indian Camp or Village 

 Sites in the Southern Part of Staten Island and Adjacent Parts of New 

 Jersey" (see this issue, p. 90). 



Mr. Charles W. Leng exhibited specimens of several species of weevils 

 (Ballaninus) which feed on acorns and the nuts of the beech, chestnut, 

 hazel and hickory, and commented on their life history, stating that a 

 paper on the subject was in course of preparation which would-be sub- 

 mitted for publication later on. 



Mr. Charles P. Benedict stated that his sister, Mrs. James B. Burkman, 

 and her son, Everett, had reported having seen an albino gray squirrel 

 on the Benedict estate. Manor Road, West New Brighton, about the 

 middle of October, 1912. This is supposed to be the same animal in 

 regard to which more or less satisfactory reports had been received by 



