Records of Meetings 



Regular Meeting, February 15, 1908 



The meeting was held in room 309, Borough Hall, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 



About eighty members and guests were present. 



In the absence of the recording secretary Mr. Charles L. Pollard was 

 elected secretary pro tern. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 18, 1908, were read and 

 approved. 



The following were elected to active membership : Mrs. Clare Herbert 

 Brown, George H. Downing, Miss Anna G. Du Bois, Miss Mary W. Green, 

 Mrs. Anton W. Hoffmeyer, Miss Rebecca M. Ludlum, Mrs. Charles 

 Knight. 



Scientific Program 



Mr. David M. Van Name read a paper on the history, of the cultiva- 

 tion of the Dahlia. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited preserved specimens of New Jersey 

 amphibians and reptiles, with notes on the same, in connection with a 

 review of the Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum for 1906. 

 (Printed in full in this issue, p. 47.) 



Mr. Davis read also, on behalf of Mr. Alanson Skinner, a paper de- 

 scribing the massacre of the Lenape Indians, in 1643, under the Dutch 

 Director, Kieft. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 53.) 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited a skin of Wilson's petrel or " Mother 

 Carey's Chickens," and read notes on its appearance in the vicinity of 

 Staten Island. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 58.) 



Mr. Lloyd M. Bayne read a note on a case of involuntary suicide by a 

 barn swallow. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 62.) 



Mr. Ira K. Morris presented a map of Staten Island, hand made, ob- 

 tained through Miss Lyon, of Rossville. The following memorandum 

 is written on the back: "1864. I found this paper today among large 

 masses & as it shows how Master Leeds Kerr's gt. gt. gt. grandfather used 

 to study out the questions of his day, sketching maps for himself, I throw 

 it into the trunk marked W. L., being his gt. gt. gt grandfather's trunk. 



William Leeds, Edward Leeds, Hon. John Leeds, John Bozeman & 

 Lucretia (Leeds) Bozeman, daughter of last named, Rachel Leeds Kerr, 

 wife of David Kerr, Esq. of Talbot Co., Md. & John Leeds Bozeman, 

 children of J. & Lucretia Bozeman. John Leeds Kerr, John Bozeman 

 Kerr, Master Leeds C. Kerr. 

 1627-29-75." 



