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Photographs of young barn owls and red-shouldered hawks.... 42 



" young crows 226 



Phragmites Phragmites from Richmond 167 



Pine lizards in captivity 175 



wood stained in various colors 43 



Plants from the vicinity of Seaford, Delaware 169 



Purple sandpiper from Crooke's Point 172 



Red-backed mouse from Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey 172 



screech owl from Richmond 172 



Ring-necked snake from New Brighton 172 



Rose quartz from New Milford, Connecticut 45 



Rudimentary and vestigial structures in insects 227 



Salamanders. Staten Island 208 



Saturnian moths. Rare North American 228 



Saw-whet owl in captivity 177 



Seal from St. Johns, Newfoundland. A young white 166 



Seventeen-year locust visitation in 1876 45 



Silk moths of North America 207 



" worm cocoons 171 



Spelerpes ruber at Horseshoe Spring 226 



Starling. Fruit-eating habits of the English 44 



Swamp tree-toad near Annadale 208 



Trees and their preservation 105 



Tubers of Helianthus 175 



Variation and sex determination 176 



Violets and ferns from Staten Island and Washington, D. C. . . 170 



Weasels. Winter and summer pelage of 177 



Wood rats 169 



Xiphidiums of the United States 171 



Observations on Staten Island Moles 141, 166 



Opening of the Museum to the Public. Exercises Held in Connection 



with the 115 



Orthoptera. Additions to the List of Staten Island 193, 208 



Owls and Hawks. Local Notes on Young 132, 165 



Peculiar Action of Lightning on a Maple Tree 35, 46 



Pine Snake at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The 201,209 



Plants. Notes on Staten Island 161, 168 



Proceedings of the Section of Art 231 



" " Biology 225 



Purple Sandpiper and Hooded Merganser. Notes on the 143, 166 



Purposes and Aims of Modern Museums 119 



Recently Introduced Grasses and Sedges 189 



Reports 



Committees 



Annual prize for work in natural science 40, 164 



Auditing 109, 212 



