Annual Reports 105 



Report of the Section of Biology 



A special meeting of the section was held October 20, 1909, to arrange 

 for program at the following meeting of the Association on November 20. 

 The regular meeting of the Association on Saturday, November 20, was 

 held under the auspices of the Section of Biology. The scientific program 

 of this meeting consisted of addresses commemorating the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the publication of The Origin of Species. An account of the meeting 

 is given in the Association minutes. 



On March 12, 1910, a meeting of the section was held in the museum 



with an attendance of about 90, the special feature of the meeting being 



a lecture by Mr. Bristow S. Adams, of the U. S. Forest Service, on the 



topic A Prodigal Nation, illustrated by handsomely colored lantern slides. 



The annual meeting was held on April 9. 



The section has thus, during the past year, held four meetings, at each 

 of which the prominent feature has been a scientific program. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Philip Dowell, 

 Recorder. 

 May 18, 1910. 



Report of the Section of Art 



To THE Board of Trustees, 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 



The Section of Art was formally organized on March 10, 1909. Prior 

 to that, the art interests of the Association were looked after by a com- 

 mittee of twelve, known as the art committee of the Association. When 

 the Section of Art came into being, this committee was dissolved, to be 

 reappointed as the committee on exhibits, one of the two standing com- 

 mittees of the section. 



When we remember its recent organization, it will be seen that the 

 past year has been, practically, the freshman year of the Section of Art. 

 The activities of the year may be summarized under three headings: Meet- 

 ings, Excursions, and Loan Exhibits. 



After Dr. J. Q. Adams assumed the chairmanship, a business meeting of 

 the section was called for June 4. At this meeting the possibilities of use- 

 fulness open to the section were outlined by the chairman, and free dis- 

 cussion was invited. Various suggestions made at this meeting bore fruit 

 later in the lectures given on art topics, and the excursions that were 

 taken to places of artistic interest. 



On December 18 the regular monthly meeting of the Association was 

 in charge of the Section of Art. Through the courtesy of the chairman, 

 the services of Lewis F. Pilcher, Professor of Fine Arts in Vassar College, 

 were secured for this occasion. The program consisted of a lecture on 

 the topic Doric Architecture as Applied to the Subtreasury Building, at 

 Broadwav and Nassau Streets, New York City. 



