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bat, Pipistrellus subflavus (Cuvier), captured in a barn near Richmond. 

 This species migrates southward and does not hibernate here. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, January 16, 1909 



The meeting was held in the reading room of the branch public library 

 at St. George. 



First Vice-President William T. Davis in the chair. 



About eighteen persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of December 19, 1908, were read and 

 approved. 



The curator-in-chief announced the donation, by Mr. Alanson Skinner, 

 of his extensive and valuable collection of articles of Iroquois Indian 

 manufacture, representing implements of warfare and domestic economy, 

 games, ceremonies, etc., now on exhibition in the museum. 



Mr. Skinner was called upon and gave a brief account of where and 

 how they were obtained. 



On motion a vote of thanks on behalf of the Association was tendered 

 Mr. Skinner for his gift. 



x Scientific Program 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard read a paper, illustrated by diagrams, on " Re- 

 cent Advances in Our Knowledge of Heredity." 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited specimens of pellets disgorged by several 

 species of owls, and read an account of the results obtained from exami- 

 nation of a number of such pellets. 



Mr. Chapin opened two of the pellets exhibited and showed the included 

 remains of several meadow mice and a jumping mouse. 



Mr. Chapin also exhibited a photograph of young rough-winged swal- 

 lows and read notes on " Two Additions to the List of Birds Known to 

 Breed on Staten Island." (Printed in full in this issue, p. 150.) 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited specimens of Phragmites phragmites (L.) 

 Karst, our largest native grass, collected on the border of the salt meadows 

 near Richmond, where it grows to a height of eight or ten feet over quite 

 an area, and forms a conspicuous feature in the landscape. 



Miss Mary W. Green exhibited a bedspread, brought from China about 

 1784 by Captain John Green. It will be displayed as part of the exhibit 

 to be installed by the Arts and Antiquities Committee in the public library 

 at St. George. 



Miss Green read the following memorandum : 



Captain John Green was born March 30, 1736, O. S., and came to 

 America in his early youth. He was the owner of many ships and a dock 

 in Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution. 



With his friend Captain James Craig, whose daughter had married 

 Captain Green's son, he fitted out ships for the Pennsylvania navy, and 



