1 82 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Annual Meeting, May 20, 191 1 



The meeting was held in the assembly room of the Museum, No. 154 

 Stuyvesant Place, New Brighton, President Howard R. Bayne in the 

 chair, and twenty-five persons present. 



The minutes of the meeting of April 15, 191 1, were read and approved. 



The annual report of the Board of Trustees, including reports of the 

 standing committees and curator-in-chief, was read and ordered placed on 

 file. (See pp. 183-192 of this issue.) 



The annual report of the secretary was read and ordered placed on file. 

 (See p. 193' of this issue.) 



The annual report of the treasurer, was read and ordered placed on 

 file (p. 193). 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, recorder of the Section of Biology, presented 

 a report on the activities of the section during the year (p. 194). 



Dr. John Q. Adams made a verbal report on behalf of the Section of 

 Art, and Mr. Edward C. Delavan made a similar report on behalf of the 

 Section of Historical Research. 



The president stated that the next order of business was the election 

 of four trustees [to fill the vacancies caused by the expiration of the terms 

 of office of John Blake Hillyer, Philip Dowell, WilHam Hinman Mitchill, 

 and George Scranton Humphrey], and called for the report of the com- 

 mittee on nominations. The committee submitted, as nominees, the 

 names of Bradish Johnson Carroll, Norman Stewart Walker, William 

 Hinman Mitchill, and George Scranton Humphrey. The president asked 

 if there were any other nominations, and no others being made, the 

 secretary, on motion, was instructed to cast one affirmative ballot for the 

 nominees submitted by the committee. The secretary cast the ballots as 

 instructed and the president declared the nominees elected trustees of 

 the Association for the ensuing three years. 



On motion the president was authorized to appoint a committee of 

 three, of which the principal of Curtis High School should be one, to 

 award the Association's annual prize in natural science at the school. 



The president reported on legislation introduced by him in the State 

 Senate, amending the charter of the Association by authorizing the en- 

 largement of the Board of Trustees to twenty-five members. 



The president then delivered his annual address. 



Scientific Program 



Dr. Philip Dowell exhibited herbarium specimens representing additions 

 to the local flora, with memoranda and notes. (Printed in full in this 

 issue, pp. 156-168.) 



An obituary notice and biography of Mr. John J. Crooke, by Mr. 

 William T. Davis, was read by the secretary. (Printed in full in this 

 issue, pp. 169-172.) 



The meeting then adjourned. 



