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Myrica caroliniana Mill, together with the wax obtained by heating about 

 half a pint of the fruit, and remarked to the following effect: This wax 

 was formerly utilized to some extent in the home manufacture of can- 

 dles ; but the amount which may be secured is relatively so small, as com- 

 pared with the amount of fruit which must be collected and treated, 

 that it is doubtful if many of the so called " bayberry candles," sold so 

 extensively as such at Christmas time in recent years, are made in whole 

 or even in part from the wax of the bayberry. 



Dr. HoUick also exhibited a large dried mass of and read the following 

 note on Rhhoclonium hieroglyphicum (Ag.) Kutz : 



On November 29, in company with Dr. N. L. Britton, while engaged in 

 collecting freshwater algae with Professor Nordal Wille of Christiania, 

 Norway, this species of alga was found growing in abundance in upper 

 Clove Lake, and it was at once identified by Professor Wille. Large 

 masses of it had been dredged out, in order, apparently, to try and clear 

 the water for prospective ice harvesting during the coming winter. These 

 masses had been cast upon the banks, where they were trodden under foot 

 by passing pedestrians and flattened into sheets of closely compacted 

 vegetable tissue, of which this specimen is a sample. It is evidently re- 

 garded as a nuisance which it is highly desirable to abate, for economic 

 reasons, and those who are interested in the matter should try the experi- 

 ment of treating the lake with copper sulphate. About one part to a 

 million, or one pound of the sulphate to each estimated 1,000,000 pints of 

 water, suitably distributed through the lake, would probably obviate the 

 trouble arising from all algal growth, without in any way unfavorably 

 affecting the wholesomeness of the water as a source of ice supply.- 



Announced Program 



Mr. Louis R. E. Paulin, of the New York World, gave a descriptive 

 address on The Making of a Newspaper, with especial reference to methods 

 employed in gathering news and the general policy pursued in editing and 

 pubHshing it. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, January 15, 1915 



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 twenty-six persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of December 18, 1914, were read and 

 approved. 



The secretary stated that, in accordance with an informal suggestion 



2 See " Copper as an Algicide and Disinfectant in Water Supplies," 

 George T. Moore and Karl Kellerman. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bur. Plant 

 Industry Bull. 76. April 3, 1905. 



