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Harold Ludlow was determined to be the successful competitor and 

 Walter B. Reich was recommended for honorable mention. 



The subject and conditions determined upon for the year 1907-8 were 

 as follows : 



Subject 



A collection of not less than 100 specimens of Stateri Island insects, 

 including at least 50 species and 4 orders. 



Conditions 



1. The specimens shall be mounted and displayed in boxes or cases 1 and 

 grouped according to their natural orders. 



2. Each specimen shall be labeled, the label to include the scientific 

 name, the common name when any such is recognized, and the locality 

 where the specimen was collected. 



3. The specimens shall be collected between July 1, 1907, and June I, 

 1908, and the collection shall be completed in all details and turned in to 

 the principal of the school on or before June — , 1908. 



Arthur Hollick "i 



Wm. T. Davis VCommittee. 



Harry F. Towle J 



The President made formal announcement of the transfer of . the 

 museum and library of the Association to the room assigned by the city 

 in the Borough Hall, and the employment of Mr. Charles Louis Pollard 

 A.M. as curator; also that the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 

 had approved an appropriation of $4,000 for the furnishing and equipment 

 of the museum. 



The President then introduced Mr. Pollard, who spoke briefly on the 

 present condition of the collections and library and outlined the general 

 plans suggested for their future care and arrangement. 



Mr. William T. Davis and Dr. Arthur Hollick referred to the death, 

 since the last meeting of the Association, of Mr. Samuel Henshaw, one 

 of the organizers of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island. 

 The following" sketch of Mr. Henshaw's life was read by Dr. Hollick : 



Mr. Samuel Henshaw, one of the fourteen organizers of the Natural 

 Science Association of Staten Island, on November 12, 1881, was born in 

 Manchester, England, and died on Staten Island, July 22, 1907, in his 

 seventy-fourth year. He came to America in 1868 to take charge of the 

 John C. Green estate at New Brighton, in which position he remained for 

 twenty-one years. In 1890 he began independent work as a landscape 

 gardener and laid out a number of large estates, including those of John 

 Doane at Thompson, Connecticut, Wm. Rockefeller in Westchester 

 County, New York, the grounds of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, Co- 

 lumbia University, the parks for Wappingers Falls, New York, the 

 grounds of Gilbert College and the Gilbert Home at Winsted, Connecti- 

 cut, the estate of Mrs. Eldridge at Norfolk, Connecticut, the Rhinelander 

 esate, the New York Botanical Garden, and many lesser undertakings. For 

 many years he was an active member of the Association, having served for 



1 Any collection may be displayed in one large box or case or in several 

 small boxes or cases. 



