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Society and enumerated in the brief published by the latter under date 

 of March, 1908, and prepared by William Dutcher, president of said 

 Society. 



Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Hon. 

 Charles E. Hughes, Governor; to the Hon. Dennis J. Harte, Senator for 

 the 2nd District; and to Hon. William Allaire Shortt, Assemblyman for 

 the County of Richmond. 



Scientific Program 



Mr. Ira K. Morris presented an old framed document, the certificate 

 of honorable discharge of John Britton, private in Captain Richard S. 

 Cary's Troop of Richmond Cavalry of the County of Richmond, from the 

 service of the United States, dated December 2, 1814, and made some 

 comments on the same. (Printed in full in the Staten Islander, March 25, 

 1908.) 



Mr. William W. Bryan presented two original instruments, one a 

 Pennsylvania land grant of 1795 and the other a deed to land in the same 

 state, dated 1839. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited a panoramic photograph of the Billop 

 House at Tottenville. 



Mr. Davis also read a short paper on the high-bush blueberries (Vac- 

 cinium corymbosum and V. atrococcum) found on Staten Island. 

 (Printed in full in this issue, p. 63.) 



Mr. Alanson Skinner gave a description of the implement's, utensils, 

 costumes, etc., of Iroquois workmanship included in the collection now on 

 display in the branch public library at St. George. 



Mr. Skinner also presented an old photograph of the frigate New 

 Orleans, one of the U. S. navy vessels in the war of 1812. 



Mr. F. W. Skinner commented upon certain of its features of con- 

 struction. 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited specimens and read notes on the species of 

 mice and shrews known to occur on Staten Island. (Printed in full in 

 this issue, p. 65.) 



Mr. Chapin read also a paper giving records of the local occurrence of 

 the coot (Fulica americana Gmel.). (Printed in full in this issue, p. 68.) 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, April 18, 1908 



The meeting was held at the Staten Island Academy, New Brighton. 



Vice-President William T. Davis in the chair. 



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

 elected secretary pro tern. 



The minutes of the meeting of March 21, 1908, were read and approved 

 as amended. 



The following were elected to active membership : Mrs. Lester W. 

 Clark, Mrs. Herbert Crabtree, Miss F. E. C. Nichols, Miss Harriet 

 Slator, Mrs. Arthur Sloan, Mrs. Wilbur W. Whitford. 



The chairman announced the death, on April 15, of Mr. George S. 



