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SciKNTiFic Program 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited specimens and read a paper on Notes on 

 Specimens Recently Collected in the Serpentine Area of Staten Island. 

 (Printed in full in this issue, p. 31.) 



Mr. William T. Davis read a paper on Notes on the White-breasted 

 Nuthatch. (Printed in full in this issue, p. 34.) 



Mr. Edward C. Delavan, Jr., read a paper on the early settlers of Staten 

 Island. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a collection of Staten Island soils, sands, 

 silts, and clays, prepared for museum display in sealed glass jars so that 

 they may be handled like other geological and mineralogical specimens. 



Mr. Charles P. Benedict exhibited the inflorescence of a wild carrot, 

 Daucus carota L., with all of the florets purple. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Regular ^Meeting, November 20, 1909 



The meeting was held in the museum, Borough Hall, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 



About forty persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of October 16, 1909, w^ere read and approved. 



The president announced that he had appointed Hon. William Allaire 

 Shortt and Dr. Arthur Hollick a committee on legislation, in accordance 

 with the resolutions adopted at the October meeting of the Association. 



Scientific Program 



The president announced that the program for the evening was in 

 charge of the Section of Biology, and resigned the chair to Mr. Charles 

 L. Pollard, chairman of the Section. 



Mr. Pollard stated that the program had been arranged to commemorate 

 the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the scientist's Origin of Species, 

 and outlined the principal factors concerned in the theory of evolution. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Zoology in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, delivered an address, illustrated 

 with diagrams and apparatus, on Recent Studies in Evolution. 



Dr. Wiliam D. Matthew, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology 

 in the American Museum of Natural History, delivered an address, illus- 

 trated by lantern slides, on The Development of Species as Illustrated in 

 the Evolution of the Horse. 



On motion, a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered Dr. Lutz and 

 Dr. Matthew for their courtesy in preparing and delivering their addresses; 

 and Mr. Charles A. Ingalls for the use and operation of his stereopticon 

 in illustrating Dr. Matthew's address. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



