SO6.12 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
OF STATEN ISLAND. 
Vout. VIII. No. 4. 
MARCH 9th, rgor. 
The regular meeting of the Association 
was held at the Staten Island Academy 
In the absence of the president Mr. E. C. 
Delavan was elected chairman fro tem 
The committtee appointed to consider the 
subject of renaming the streets and highways 
of the Island, where names have been dupli- 
cated, submitted the following 
REPORT OF PROGRESS. 
To the Natural Science Association of Staten 
Island, 
Your Committee on the renaming of streets 
and highways begs to report as follows: 
No meeting of the Committee has been 
held since the communication made to the 
President by Mr, Davis. After the last meet- 
ing of the Association it was apparent that a 
final report could not be made until a list 
of streets had been prepared for purposes of 
comparison and renaming, Such work has 
already been begun, The plan adopted is to 
prepare a list of all streets alphabetically ar- 
ranged, The Robinson Atlas is being used 
for this purpose. By the next meeting of the 
Association it is expected that the list will be 
completed and all duplications ascertained 
and that the final report of the Committee 
will then be submitted. 
Accompanying this report is [I.| the pre- 
liminary report of Mr. Davis, together with 
[II. and III.] the communications in relation 
to the matter, from Mr, George Cromwell, 
President of the Borough, 
Respectfully submitted, 
LESTER W. CLARK, 
For the Committee, 
T: 
To the President of the Natural Science Asso- 
ciation, 
Dear Sir:—At your request I have prepar- 
ed the following list of a few of the streets, 
avenues and roads of the Island the names of 
which are duplicated The list is accompan- 
ied by a few suggestions that may perhaps be 
of some use to the City authorities in renam- 
ing them. 
Richmond avenue, Port Richmond 
= os Clifton, 
The first of these was originally known as 
the Church road, from the fact that it leads to 
the old Dutch Church, of which Dr. Brown- 
lee was so long pastor, Church road is quite 
as euphonious and agreeable as Richmond 
avenue, and the old name should be restored. 
We still have the Richmond road, the Amboy 
road and the Fresh Kill road, and to change 
any of these would be a great mistake. The 
Boston road,which runs through a closely-built 
section of Bronx Borough, has a much more 
significant name than if it had been changed 
to Boston avenue or Boston street. 
