Records of Meetings 113 



Announced Program 



Dr. Arthur Hollick read a paper on the old stone house at New Dorp, 

 owned by Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton and generally known as the " Cubberly 

 House," illustrated with lantern slides made from photographs taken Jan- 

 uary 5, 1915, and an old water-color sketch of the house, made about 1848 

 or 1850 by Mr. Adam W. Spies and loaned for the occasion by Doctor 

 Britton, and supplemented by several letters and other communications 

 relating to the premises, including a tender of the property as a gift to the 

 Association. (See this issue, p. 68.) 



Doctor Hollick remarked that this was Doctor Britton's birthday and 

 suggested that a telegram of congratulation in such connection and thanks 

 for the gift of the property would be appropriate, and submitted a tenta- 

 tive form of such communication. After several verbal changes were sug- 

 gested it was 



Voted, that the following night-letter telegram be transmitted: 



St. George, Staten Island, 



January 15, 191 5. 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, 



New York Botanical Garden, 

 New York, N. Y. 

 At the regular meeting of the Staten Island Association of Arts and 

 Sciences, held on Friday, January 15, 191 5, it was Voted: that the twenty- 

 six members and guests of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sci- 

 ences present at this meeting transmit a telegram wishing Doctor Na- 

 thaniel L. Britton many happy returns of his birthday, and extending to 

 Nathaniel L. and Elizabeth G. Britton jointly the thanks and appreciation 

 of the Association for their generous gift of the " Cubberly House " to 

 the Association. 



Arthur Hollick, 



Secretary. 



Mrs. Robert W. Gardner exhibited a series of photographs of the house, 

 taken during the period of her occupancy of the premises about ten 

 years ago. 



Doctor Hollick exhibited a copy of Doctor Britton's work. North 

 American Trees, issued in 1908, in which, on page 219 and represented in 

 figure 178, is a view of the house incidental to a picture of a large black 

 walnut tree in the corner of the grounds at the intersection of New Dorp 

 Lane and Cedar Grove Avenue. This is one of the few large walnut trees 

 remaining on Staten Island. Another interesting botanical feature of the 

 grounds is an equally fine example of an old cherry tree, measuring 9 

 feet 7 inches in circumference. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, February 19, 191 5 



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. 



