Records of Meetings 



Regular Meeting, October 15, 191 5 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and fourteen persons present. 



The minutes of the annual meeting of May 21 and the adjourned annual 

 meeting of May 22, 1915, were read and approved. 



The secretary read the following proposed amendment to the bylaws, 

 submitted at the annual meeting: 



Resolved, That section 2 of bylaw I be and is hereby amended so as to 

 read : " Sec. 2. Regular Meetings : The regular meetings of the Association 

 shall be held on the third [Friday] Saturday evening of each month from 

 October to May inclusive," — the remainder of the section to remain 

 unchanged. 



The resolution was voted upon by ballot and adopted — aye 11, blank i. 

 The president thereupon declared the amendment adopted. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited photographs of Silver Lake basin, taken 

 by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves on October 14, 1915, and described the changes 

 in the vegetation established on the partially drained area since about a 

 year previously. (See this issue, p. 67.) 



Dr. Hollick also exhibited a photograph of the cave near the upper end 

 of Little Clove Road, taken by Mr. Cleaves on October 8, 1914, and read a 

 paper on certain geological features and historical traditions connected 

 with it. (See this issue, p. 69.) 



Dr. Hollick remarked upon the fact that many fruit trees were in bloom 

 at date on the island and showed blossoms from a pear tree, Pyrus com- 

 munis L., on Stuyvesant Place, New Brighton, collected October 13 ; also 

 apple blossoms. Mains Malus (L.) Britfon, collected on October 3 at West 

 New Brighton by Mr. H. Sherman Ingalls. Other members remarked 

 upon having observed the same occurrence in connection with several spe- 

 cies of garden shrubs, and it was recalled that similar instances occurred 

 during the autumn of 1895, which were mentioned at the November meet- 

 ing of that year. (See Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Is. 5 : 3. November 



9, 1895-) 



Mr. William T. Davis presented and discussed the features of an old 

 wall map with the title 



Staten Island. 

 MAP 



OF 



New Brighton, Tompkinsville, 



Stapleton and Clifton ; 



shewing the surrounding neighbourhood. 



Surveyed and Drawn by C. H. Blood, 1845. 



LITH. OF G. & W. ENDICOTT, NEW YORK. 



