194 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Assets and Liabilities 



Cash Assets 



Life membership fund, on deposit in savings bank $ lOO.OO 



Accrued interest on life membership fund, to January i, 1911... 16.27 



Cash on deposit in Corn Exchange Bank 168.62 



$ 284.89 

 Additional Assets 



Back dues outstanding $ 372.00 



Liabilities 



Estimated dues uncoUectable $ 150.00 



Note 350.00 



Total liabilities $ 500.00 



Total assets 656.89 



Assets over liabilities $ 156.89 



C. A. Ingalls, 

 Treasurer. 



Report of the Section of Biology 



This section has been comparatively inactive during the past season, 

 only three meetings having been held, one at the homiC of Mr. William T. 

 Davis, chairman of the section, on the evening of October 31, 1910; the 

 second (the annual meeting) in the museum building on April 22, 191 1; 

 and the third. May 13, 191 1, on which occasion Mr. Charles W. Leng 

 presented a paper on Salt Meadow Beetles (contained in this issue, pp. 



153-155). 



Although the section has not been as active as usual, it arranged the 

 spring series of three lectures for the benefit of the Association at large 

 as well as the general public. These lectures have proved most satis- 

 factory, having been attended by large audiences. The subjects and dates 

 were as follows : 



Saturday, April 22, 191 1, With the Seminoles in the Florida Everglades. 

 Mr. Alanson Skinner. 



Saturday, April 29, 1911, Wild Flowers of Staten Island. Dr. A, J. 

 Grout. 



Saturday, May 6, 191 1, The Expression of Emotion in Birds as Shown 

 by the Camera. Mr. Clinton G. Abbott. 



Wm. T. Davis, 

 Chairman. 



