Records of Meetings 



Regular Meeting, January 15, 1910 



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

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

 About twenty-five persons were present. 



The minutes of the meetings of November 20, 1909, and December 19, 

 1909, were read and approved. 



Scientific Program 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited photographs taken under his direction by- 

 Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, showing the geologic section exposed in the 

 cut made for the retaining wall on the east side of Jay Street, opposite 

 Borough Hall, together with specimens of the serpentine rock obtained 

 from the outcrop at the base of the cut, which is about at tide level. 



The rock was found to be free from the weathering characteristic of 

 the hill surfaces but much fractured and traversed by numerous shear 

 planes and pressure zones and largely altered into a hard antholite schist. 

 The section showed about six feet of serpentine at the bottom with about 

 thirty feet of bowlder drift above. 



Mr. William T. Davis gave an account of a recent visit to Yaphank, 

 Long Island, with notes on the fauna and flora of the locality. 



Of special interest was a colony of hermit thrushes, Turdns aonalaschkae 

 pallasii (Cab.), which nest there, described by Mr. Davis in the Auk for 

 October, 1909. 



The presence of a European cricket, Grylliis domesticus L., in a farm- 

 house was noted. 



Mr. Davis exhibited specimens of fresh water sponges; a peculiar form 

 of Smilax rotundifolia L., having panduriform leaves, from the same 

 locality; a specimen of the brook lamprey, Animocoetes branchialis (L.), 

 from Ramsey, New Jersey ; also Gordius worms, commonly known as 

 " horsehair snakes," parasitic in the intestinal canals of beetles and 

 crickets. 



Mr. Davis commented on the fact that he had frequently found the 

 flowers of the yellow gerardia, Dasystonia flava (L.) Wood, punctured 

 by bees in their search for honey before the blossoms had opened in the 

 early morning. ' 



The meeting then adjc5urned. 



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