48 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Announced Program 



Dr. James Sullivan, State Historian and Director of the Division of 

 Archives and History, State Department of Education of the University 

 of the State of New York, gave a lecture on The Battle of the Marne, \ 

 illustrated with lantern slides explanatory of the army units engaged and 

 the military tactics and strategy involved in attack and defense. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, JANUARY I9, I918 



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

 vesant Place, Staten Island. 



First vice-president William T. Davis in the chair and nineteen persons 

 present. 



The minutes of the meeting of December 15, 1917, were read and 

 approved. 



Mr. William T. Davis referred to the death on December 19, 1917, of 

 Louis Pope Gratacap, who was one of the oldest members of the Associa- 

 tion, and president of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island 

 from November 1887 to November 1889. Mr. Davis read an appreciative 

 obituary notice and a list of his contributions to the Proceedings of the 

 Association. (See this issue, p. 19.) 



Dr. Arthur HoUick exhibited a bound volume of the Richmond County 

 Mirror, volume i, July 1837-July 1838, which was made the subject of a 

 communication presented at a meeting of the Section of Historical Re- 

 search held January 12. (See this issue, p. 55.) Doctor Hollick referred 

 particularly to the frontispiece of the volume, a steel engraving represent- 

 ing the water front of New Brighton, and read the following explanatory 

 text, printed as the leading article on the first page of the first number : 



" The view of New Brighton, which accompanies this number, is from 

 a Steel Plate from a painting designed expressly for this work by Chap- 

 man. . . . The subject was selected not only for its breadth of landscape 

 and the boldness of the hills that tower behind the village in the fore- 

 ground, but also as the seat of the newest and most stately settlement on 

 the Island, and we may say, in the country.. The subject, moreover, being 

 new and un-worn, is the more interesting and piquant in proportion as it 

 is unknown : and anything calculated to elucidate the matter of the rising 

 up of this village from the chaotic wilds of the 'north shore' — like Venus 

 from the sea — growth that played around the mutilated body of Uranus — 

 will undoubtedly be perused with interest and attention. 



" This village was commenced by the individual enterprise of Thomas 

 E. Davis Esq. but its commanding site and its proximity to the great 

 metropolis of the west, soon arrested the attention of several gentlemen 

 who formed an Association for the purpose of inducing Mr. Davis to 

 part with portions of his purchase — they succeeded, and the extensive im- 

 provements which have since been effected, are the results of the united 

 taste and enterprise of the members of the N. Brighton Association. 



" The village is situated about one mile's distance from the village of 



