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The secretary cast the ballot as instructed and the president declared 

 the nominees elected. 



The Britten Cottage committee submitted a report covering the period 

 since the last annual meeting of the Association, which was read and or- 

 dered placed on file. (See this issue, p. 76.) 



Verbal reports were given on the work of the active sections of the 

 Association during the year, in the form of extracts from the minutes of 

 the several meetings held. (For full reports of the Section of Historical 

 Research and the Section of Natural Science see this issue, p. 52, and p. 

 57, respectively.) 



Dr. Arthur Hollick submitted the following preamble and resolution, 

 which was unanimously adopted : 



Whereas, in accordance with Chapter 57 of the Laws of 1918, amending 

 Chapter 850 of the Laws of 191 1, Chapter 208 of the Laws of 1910, and 

 Chapter 526 of the Laws of 1905 incorporating; the Staten Island Associa- 

 tion of Arts and Sciences, the name of the said association is changed to 

 Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 



Resolved, that this corporation at this annual meeting held on May 18, 

 1918, hereby formally adopts the said change of name and requests the 

 Board of Trustees to take whatever further action may be necessary in 

 such connection. 



Mr. Charles W. Leng referred to Mr. Cleaves' address at the January 

 meeting of the Association on ice phenomena during the past winter, and 

 exhibited the roots of a cultivated honeysuckle vine, Lonicera japonica 

 Thunb. ?, from his garden, which had been killed by the extreme cold that 

 killed or damaged so many other cultivated plants. 



Mr. William T. Davis mentioned the high-water shrub, Iva frutescens 

 L., as a plant thermometer that recorded extremes of cold by the extent 

 to which their stems were winter killed according to the degrees of tem- 

 perature, and referred to his paper on the subject in the Proceedings of 

 THE Natural Science Association of Staten Island, vol. 3, p. 44. June 

 10, 1893. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Meetings of the Sections 

 section of historical research 



Annual Meeting, January 12, 1918 



The meeting was called to order by the chairman, George W. Tuttle. 



Present : George W. Tuttle, William T. Davis, Edward M. Stothers, 

 Stephen L. Mershon, and Arthur Hollick, members ; Charles G. Hine and 

 E. C. Shaver, visitors. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick was elected recorder pro tempore. 



Ofificers for the ensuing year were elected as follows : chairman, George 

 W. Tuttle; recorder, S. McKee Smith. 



