Records of Meetings 



Regular Meeting, October 15, 1910 



The meeting was held in the Museum, Borough Hall, New Brighton, 

 President Howard R. Bayne in the chair, and fifteen persons present. 



The minutes of the annual meeting of May 21, 1910, were read and 

 approved. 



The committee appointed to award the annual prize in natural science, 

 offered by the Association to pupils in Curtis High School, made the 

 following report : 



The subject for competition during the schoolyear iqoq-io was "a 

 collection of not less than fifty Staten Island insects of economic impor- 

 tance, including at least twenty-five species," with a brief statement of the 

 special economic interest attaching to each species. 



Two collections were submitted in competition. While neither of these 

 was quite up to the requirements of being confined to " insects of eco- 

 nomic importance " or in being completely labeled in accordance with the 

 prescribed conditions, the committee decided that the collection submitted 

 by Louis H. Achilles was deserving of the prize, in view of the diligence 

 shown in having made a collection of specimens far in excess of the 

 required number, and in the care shown in mounting them. 



The prize was, therefore, awarded to Master Achilles. 



The subject and conditions determined upon for the year 1910-11 are: 



Subject 



An essay of not less than 1,000 words, giving an account of some Staten 

 Island brook, and describing (i) its source, (2) its geographic course, 

 (3) the character of the country through which it flows, (4) discussion 

 of special physiographic features, such as erosion, rapids, falls, etc., (s) 

 fauna and flora observed along its course, (6) historical facts, if any, 

 connected with it. 



Conditions 



The essay should be neatly written in ink, on one side of the paper 

 only, not rolled or folded, and must be handed to the principal of Curtis 

 High School on or before June i, 191 1. 



Note 

 The committee reserves the right to retain any essay which it may deem 

 suitable for publication. 



Charles L. Pollard, 

 William T. Davis, 

 Harry F. Towle, 



Committee. 

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