Proceedings of the Section of Biology 



Special Meeting, October 20, 1909 



The meeting was held in the museum. The Section decided to 

 take charge of the November meeting of the Association and 

 furnish the entire program for that meeting, the chairman and 

 the recorder being authorized to secure speakers for the meeting 

 as a Darwin memorial. 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves reported having seen the nest of a 

 blue-winged warbler near Huguenot, Staten Island, in ]\Iay 1909. 

 He reported also the breeding of the killdeer on Staten Island, 

 as evidenced by the fact that he had found the mother bird with 

 its young near Pleasant Plains. 



Mr. William T. Davis showed and commented on some rare 

 insects from Helmetta and Jamesburg, New Jersey, among which 

 were Orchelimum pulchelliim Davis and Cicada sayi Grossbeck, 

 the latter accompanied by a stick showing hole made by the 

 ovipositor of the insect. 



November 20, 1909 



The regular meeting of the Association on November 20, 1909, 

 was held in the museum under the auspices of the Section, the 

 president of the Association, Hon. Howard R. Bayne, presiding. 

 The scientific program was a Darwin memorial, commemorating 

 both the one hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his most important 

 work. The Origin of Species. An account of the meeting will be 

 found in the minutes of the Association. The program follows: 



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