Records of Meetings 105 



Scofield, a member of the first Board of Trustees, and a member of the 

 Natural Science Association of Staten Island since 1902. 



The following amendment to the bylaws, proposed at the last meeting 

 of the Association, was adopted : 



VIII. General Provisions 



All procedure and business of the Association not fixed by the 

 Constitution or Bylaws shall be determined by the Board of 

 Trustees, and all questions of parliamentary order and procedure 

 not specially provided for by the Bylaws shall be governed by 

 [Cushing's Manual] Roberts' Rules of Order. 



The curator-in-chief announced that the museum cases had been re- 

 ceived and placed in position ; that the installation of specimens was under 

 way, and that the museum would probably be ready for opening some 

 time in May. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard proposed various amendments to the Consti- 

 tution and Bylaws which went over until the next meeting of the 

 Association. 



Scientific Program 



Mr. David M. Van Name read a paper on " Trees," discussing them 

 from their structural and economic standpoints and concluding with a 

 plea for the preservation of our forests. 



Mr. George W. Tuttle presented a series of photographic reproductions 

 of early maps of Staten Island and of New York City and vicinity, with 

 explanatory notes. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 70.) 



Mr. William T. Davis and Mr. Alanson Skinner gave a series of memo- 

 randa on a collection of Indian stone implements found in one day in 

 the vicinity of Mariners Harbor. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 88.) 



Mr. Davis also exhibited the skull of an otter, Lutra canadensis, 

 which was found near Newfoundland, N. J., and commented on the 

 scarcity of the animal. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 90.) 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Annual Meeting, May 16, 1908 



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

 President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 

 About forty-five members and guests were present. 

 The minutes of the meeting of April 18, 1908, were read and approved. 

 The annual reports of the Board of Trustees and the Officers of the 

 Association were read and ordered placed on file. (See pp. 107-114) : 



The president stated that the next order of business was the election 

 of four trustees to fill the vacancies caused by the expiration of the 

 terms of office of Philip Dowell, John Blake Hillyer, George Scranton 



