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The president exhibited and commented upon a series of natural grafts 

 between interlocking limbs and branches of second-growth sugar maples, 

 Acer saccharum Marsh., cut from saplings and sprouts from old stumps 

 on his farm at East Jewitt, Catskill Mountains, N. Y. 



The director exhibited recent accessions to the museum collections, as 

 follows : 



1. From Mrs. R. L'H. Finch, (a) Specimens of colonial, state bank, 

 and Confederate paper money. (6) Specimens of old china, consisting of 

 an India-ware dish and a Chinese willow-ware plate, which were brought 

 to America by the firm of Griswold & Green, merchants, in the early part 

 of the last century. 



2. From Mrs. Carl E. Tcfft. A framed, steel-engraved portrait of John 

 J. Audubon. 



The director also exhibited a silver communion service, owned by 

 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of West New Brighton, consisting 

 of a flagon and two goblets, each of the latter having the engraved 

 inscription 



Presented to the Church 



by D. Mersereau Esq''. 



for the Communion 



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and stated that the service had been tendered as a -loan to the Association 

 by the officials of the church, to be deposited in the Museum as a perma- 

 nent exhibit, in accordance with a suggestion to that effect by Mersereau 

 Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. 



Announced Program 



Dr. Arthur HoUick, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the 

 organization of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island on No- 

 vember 12, 1881, read the original minutes of the first meeting, signed by 

 him as secretary pro tem., and showed the original draft of the constitu- 

 tion and bylaws prepared at the same meeting, written by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton. 



Doctor HoUick read extracts from the " Curator's Book," begun by Mr. 

 William T. Davis, in which the first listed donation to the collections, 

 under date of November 17, 1881, is " SquUla empusa Say, from New 

 Dorp. N. L. Britton." 



Doctor Hollick exhibited the second specimen listed, a spade-foot frog, 

 Scaphiopus holbrooki Harlan, preserved in alcohol, captured at New 

 Brighton by Charles W. Butler and entered in the book under date of 

 December 20, 1881. Also fossils from a drift boulder of Schoharie grit, 

 found on the shore at " Camp Washington," the present location of the 



