Records of Meetings 



Regular Meeting, October 17, 1914 



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

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and thirty-two persons present. 

 The minutes of the annual meeting of May 16, 1914, were read and 

 approved. 



The secretary reported the results of an informal poll of the members 

 in regard to the day of the week preferred for holding the regular meet- 

 ings of the Association, as follows : 



Total number of votes received 52 



Favoring Friday 29 



Favoring Saturday 13 



Non-committal and scattering 10 



The following proposed amendment to the by-laws, to be voted upon at 

 the next regular meeting of the Association, was submitted by Mr. Anton 

 W. Hofifmeyer and read by the secretary : 



Resolved, that section 2 of by-law I be and is hereby amended so as to 

 read : " Sec. 2. Regular Meetings : The regular meetings of the Associa- 

 tion shall be held on the third Friday [Saturday] evening of each month 

 from October to May inclusive," — the remainder of the section to remain 

 unchanged. 



The curator-in-chief referred to the large number and variety of acces- 

 sions to the museum collections and library received since the previous 

 meeting, and exhibited and commented upon certain of them as follows : 



1. From Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton. — Illustrated Flora of the Northern 

 United States, Canada and the British Possessions, second edition, in three 

 volumes, by Nathaniel L. Britton and Addison Brown. 



Aside from its value as an addition to the library this work is of inval- 

 uable assistance to the curatorial staf¥ of the museum. 



2. From Mr. Cornelius S. Egbert. — A blue-print map of Crooke's Point, 

 Great Kill, Staten Island, from surveys personally made by Mr. Egbert 

 during the period from June 30 to July 8, 1914, and including the locations 

 of the high-water contours as determined by surveys made by others in 

 1909, 1904, and 1902. 



This map is of special interest in showing the changes that have taken 

 place during recent years, — changes which have converted what was for- 

 merly a sand spit, connected with the beach to the northeast, into an .island. 



3. From Mr. H. Sherman Lngalls. — A two-dollar note, issued by the 

 Staten Island Bank in June 1841. 



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