Records of Meetings 109 



Regular Meetings : The regular meetings of the Association shall be held 

 on the third Friday [Saturday] evening of each month from October to 

 May inclusive. 



The proposed amendment was submitted to a vote and adopted, — aye 

 16, no 4. 



The curator-in-chief exhibited and commented upon recent noteworthy 

 accessions as follows : 



1. From Mr. John B. Pearson. — A series of fossil gums or resins, aggre- 

 gating more than 400 specimens and including what are known under the 

 trade names of Congo and Zanzibar gum from Africa, Pontianak and 

 Manila gum from Borneo, and kauri or cowrie gum from New Zealand. 

 These and other similar natural products are also known under the more 

 or less loosely applied names of gum anime, copal, and dammar resin. 

 A discussion of their commercial uses, in the manufacture of varnishes, 

 etc., may be found in the National Standard Dispensatory for 1905, pp. 

 1306-1308, and a discussion of their botanical relationships in an article by 

 Arthur Hollick in the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. 8, 

 pp. 163-165, July 1907. 



Selected specimens of each kind have been placed in suitable glass dis- 

 play jars and these make an attractive exhibit in the geology room. 



2. From the Nezv York Botanical Garden. — A framed series of colored 

 plates of wild flowers needing protection, prepared and issued by means 

 of the Olivia E. and Caroline Phelps Stokes fund for the preservation of 

 native plants. The series includes " jack-in-the-pulpit," Arisaema triphyl- 

 lum (L.) Torr., "pink lady's slipper" or "moccasin flower," Cypripedium 

 acaulc xA.it., " spring beauty," Claytonia virginica L., " wild pink," Silene 

 caroliniana Walt., "wild columbine," Aquilcgia canadensis L., "bird-foot 

 violet," Viola pedata L., " wild azalea," Azalea nudiflora L., and " moun- 

 tain laurel," Kalmia latifolia L. 



3. From Miss Laura K. Cropsey. — A copy of H. F. Walling's Map of 

 the City of New York and Its Environs, issued in i860, which is a valuable 

 addition to our collection of old Staten Island wall maps. 



Announced Program 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves delivered a lecture on the subject of bird band- 

 ing, under the title " Studying Old Bird Problems in a New Way;" — de- 

 scribing the object of the work, the methods employed, results achieved 

 and some of the interesting facts discovered. The lecture was illustrated 

 by lantern slides, mostly made from Mr. Cleaves' original photographs. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, December 18, 1914 



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

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



