138 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Report of the Section of Art 



The officers of the section, elected at the annual meeting held on May 

 14, 1914, were as follows : John Q. Adams, chairman ; Frederick Marschall, 

 vice-chairman ; Agnes L. Pollard, recorder. 



The section held one meeting during the year, that being the annual 

 meeting on May 20, 1915, at which the foregoing officers were reelected 

 to serve during the season 1915-1916. 



The committee on art loan exhibits, appointed by the chairman, was 

 as follows : Mrs. Robert W. Gardner, chairman, Mrs. John Q. Adams, 

 Mrs. Charles P. Benedict, Mrs. Clare H. Brown, Mrs. George R. Boynton, 

 Miss S. Gertrude Clark, Mrs. T. Livingstone Kennedy, Miss Lucy J. Kipper, 

 Mr. Frederick Marschall, Miss Edith M. Pollard, Mrs. F. Winthrop White, 

 Mrs. Park J. White, Mrs. William G. Willcox, Miss Annie F. Wood. 



This committee arranged two exhibits during the year. The first of 

 these, which consisted almost wholly of daguerreotypes and miniatures, 

 was opened to the public on November 6, 1914. The second was installed 

 in February, 1915, and consisted of miscellaneous articles of historic in- 

 terest or value, loaned by different members of the Association. 



On November 5, 1914, at a private view of the first named exhibit, a 

 short talk was given begore the members of the section and the exhibitors 

 by Mr. Richard M. Coit, of New York, on the processes of making daguer- 

 reotypes, ambrotypes, etc. 



The general association meeting for March, 1915, was in charge of the 

 section, on which occasion a lecture was given by Mr. David Varon on 

 The Appreciation of Architecture. 



Agnes L. Pollard, 



Recorder. 

 Report of the Section of Biology 



Two meetings were held during the year. An abstract of the proceed- 

 ings of the meetings is as follows : 



February 13, 1915 



The meeting was held in the library of the museum. No. 154 Stuyvesant 

 Place, New Brighton. 



The chairman, Mr. Charles W. Leng, and tlie following members were 

 present : Arthur Hollick, William T. Davis, Stafford C. Edwards, Howard 

 H. Cleaves. 



The minutes of the annual meeting of May 11, 1914, were read and 

 approved. 



Doctor Hollick submitted the following memoranda, illustrated by means 

 of the specimens mentioned : 



I. A Newly Discovered Exposure of Triassic Rock. — These specimens 

 of Triassic sandstone and shale were obtained from a recently opened 

 street south of Riclimond Turnpike and a short distance east of the Wil- 



