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" The village represented at the middle and near the bottom of the map 

 I have not been able to locate by name. The village at the left side of 

 the map was probably New Dorp. As you will notice, in various places on 

 the map, the land is designated as ' f oin doux,' which means fresh meadow, 

 and ' f oin sale,' which means salt meadow. . . . 



" The line designated ' la ligne,' a little above the center of the map, may 

 refer to the point of the compass ; but it is not strictly accurate. What the 

 two crossed lines at the bottom may mean is not clear to me. They may 

 represent merely calculating lines used by the surveyor in making his map. 



"The original map is included in Land Papers, vol. i, p. 99, Secretary 

 of State's Office, Albany, N. Y., among papers dated 1676; but this date 

 is uncertain for the reason that such papers are frequently mixed up and 

 are slipped in under years to which they do not belong." 



Mr. Charles W. Leng exhibited cotypes of two new species of water 

 beetles, recently described from Staten Island specimens, and read the 

 following note : 



" In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for September 

 1917, Prof. H. C. Fall of Pasadena, Cal., describes several new Dytiscidse. 

 Among these are two species for which Staten Island is the type locality. 

 Bidessus suburbanus .was found by Mr. John D. Sherman, Jr., ' in a pond 

 in the woods' which he tells me is still in existence (though Prof. Fall 

 says 'no longer existing' from some misunderstanding), near the Mora- 

 vian cemetery, to which he was guided by Joseph C. Thompson. Hydro- 

 porus shermani was taken ' in fresh running water,' which Mr. Sherman 

 tells me means the Moravian Brook flowing through the golf links of the 

 Richmond County Country Club. Both captures were made several years 

 ago, in the course of collecting with Joseph C. Thompson, the late C. H. 

 Roberts, and myself ; and it has taken Mr. Sherman much longer to study 

 the status of the specimens than it took us to guide him to the Staten 

 Island ponds and brooks in which water beetles abound." 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves exhibited a potato, weighing 2 lbs. 5 oz., grown 

 in Colorado and donated to the museum by Mr. Walter Mayer. 



Announced Program , 



Mr. Arthur A. Michell gave a lecture, illustrated by lantern slides, on 

 Egypt the Land of the Pharaohs. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, DECEMBER 1 5, I917 



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

 vesant Place, Staten Island. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair with twenty-five persons 

 present. 



The minutes of the meeting of November 17, 1917, were read and 

 approved. 



The resolutions presented by Mr. S. McKee Smith at the November 

 meeting of the Association, proposing a change in the corporate name of 

 the Association to Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, were 

 unanimously adopted. 



