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being found in almost every region where the milkweed, Asclepias, is 

 indigenous or has become established. 



Mr. Davis exhibited and commented upon a recently issued work on 

 Pennsylvania Trees, by Mr. J. S. Illick. 



Mr. Davis also read the following memoranda : 



1. At Lakehurst, N. J., there stands on Bone Hill a large chestnut tree, 

 planted on what has been for many years a deserted farm. No chestnuts 

 grow naturally in the pine barrens of New Jersey and this tree is sepa- 

 rated, so far as is known, from any other of its kind by at least four or 

 five miles. Nevertheless it has been attacked by the blight, Endothia 

 gyrosa var. parasitica. The disease was first observed on a few small 

 branches on August 23, 1912, and by October 10, 1914, the central part of 

 the tree had commenced to die, as shown in the photograph submitted. 

 Birds are now known to carry the spores of this disease (see Science 38: 

 278. Aug. 22, 1913), and probably it was in this way that they were car- 

 ried to the lone chestnut tree on Bone Hill. 



2. The army worm, Leucania unipuncta Haw., was destructive in sev- 

 eral parts of the island during the summer of 1914. In August the moths 

 were exceedingly plentiful about the electric lights, and many also came 

 into houses. On lowering the awnings at 146 Stuyvesant Place, New 

 Brighton, on August 19, it was found that fifteen of the moths had hidden 

 themselves away for the day in one awning and twelve in the folds of 

 another. 



3. On November 17, 1913, our family cat died. He was born on August 

 29, 1897, and lived to be a little over sixteen years of age, a rather long 

 life for a cat. 



Mr. Leng read a paper on Nut and Acorn Weevils. (See this issue, 

 p. 75.) He subsequently described a trip which he had made to Dongan's 

 or Duncan's Island in Staten Island Sound, for the purpose of studying 

 the salt marsh beetle fauna to be found there. 



Mr. Edwards described certain of his experiences and observations 

 during a trip to Ecuador and Peru in 1914. 



Mr. Cleaves reported having seen an immature little blue heron, Florida 

 C. caerulea Linn., at Wolfe's Pond, Prince's Bay, on July 19, 1914, and 

 remarked on the rarity of the species in this vicinity. 



Annual Meeting, May 20, 1913 



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

 Place, New Brighton. 



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

 present: Arthur Hollick, William T. Davis, Philip Dowell, James Chapin, 

 Howard H. Cleaves. 



The minutes of the meeting of February 15, 1915, were read and 

 approved. 



The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in the reelection of 

 Charles W. Leng, chairman, and Howard H. Cleaves, recorder. 



