Records of Meetings 149 



Dr. Arthur Hollick read a paper on Changes and Inconsistencies in the 

 Spelling of Local Place Names by the United States Geological Survey 

 (printed in full in this issue, p. log), and offered the following resolution, 

 which was adopted : 



Resolved, that the Board of Trustees be requested to instruct the publi- 

 cation committee to preserve, as far as possible, the origin and meaning 

 of local place names in the spelling of the same, wherever any such names 

 may appear in any of the publications of the Association, and to adopt a 

 uniform code of nomenclature for all such names in all papers submitted 

 for publication. 



The curator-in-chief called attention to the fact that the Association was 

 represented in the City Budget Exhibit and urged the members to visit the 

 exhibit. 



The secretary made a brief report on tlie instalation and arrangement 

 of the material representing the Association. 



Scientific Program 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited specimens and read a paper entitled 

 Miscellaneous Observations on the Natural History of Long Island, N. Y. 

 (Printed in full in this issue, p. 113.) 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a note, written and signed by Aaron Burr, 

 which reads as follows: 



[indorsed] 



A. Burr drft in 



favor of Tillinghast 



In connection with the note Dr. Hollick presented the following memo- 

 randum : 



This document came into my possession in a somewhat peculiar manner. 

 At the Buffalo meeting of the American Association of Museums, last sum- 

 mer, one of the sessions was held at the Museum of the Buffalo Historical 

 Society. I happened to be conversing with Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, 

 of the Field Museum of Natural History, who casually showed me the 



