30 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Announced Program 



The president introduced Dr. Albert Warren Ferris, medical expert of 

 the New York State Reservation Commission at Saratoga Springs, who 

 delivered an address, illustrated with lantern slides, on the work accom- 

 plished and contemplated by the Commission at Saratoga Springs and 

 vicinity. 



At the close of the lecture a vote of thanks was tendered Dr. Ferris for 

 his courtesy. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, March 21, 1914 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



First Vice-President William T. Davis in the chair and thirty-two per- 

 sons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 21, 1914, were read and 

 approved. 



The secretary read a communication from Mr. George F. Kunz, request- 

 ing to be advised in regard to whether the Association would take part 

 in a proposed celebration at Fort Wadsworth, on Friday, March 27, 1914, 

 under the auspices of the New York Commercial Tercentenary Com- 

 mission, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing of the 

 Dutch in New York City. On motion the president was authorized at 

 his discretion to appoint a delegation, of which he should be a member, to 

 represent the Association at the proposed celebration. 



The secretary referred to an article on the Congo Expedition of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, in the New York Tribune of Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1914, and stated that a letter from Mr. James Chapin, written to 

 his mother, had been received since that date, and read extracts from the 

 letter, which was dated " Avakubi, Dec. 27, 1913." 



The curator-in-chief called attention to a copy of The Birds of Long 

 Island, by J. P. Giraud, Jr., published in 1844, recently acquired by pur- 

 chase for the library of the Association at the price of $11. The work 

 is now very rare and difficult to obtain. Among the many facts and items 

 of interest contained in it may be noted the information that the pinnated 

 grouse or prairie hen is "very nearly if not entirely extinct" on the island, 

 although " thirty years ago it was quite abundant on the bushy plains in 

 Suffolk County." 



Announced Program 



Mr. Alanson Skinner gave a descriptive talk on The Habits, Customs, 

 and Traditions of the Forest Indians of North America, in which he 

 included the Crees, Ojibways, and Menominees. 



Mr. Amos Oneroad, a full-blood Sioux Indian from South Dakota, was 



