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three to four inches in diameter. The crash- 
ing of falling branches was heard on every 
side, and the destruction is very great.” 
The tall maple mentioned above, still 
showed the affects ot the storm in 1893. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn.) Snow Flake 
or Snow Bunting 
Mr. Davis mentioned that during the snow 
storm on the efternoon of Feb. 22nd _fol- 
lowing the severe storm of the night before, @ 
number of these birds were seen on the upper 
part of Taylor Street and on Carey Avenue, 
West New Brighton. The snow bunting was 
last mentioned in our Proceedings of March 
18, 1893 as having been seen in a field on 
Todt Hill on Feb, 26th of that year, 
Mr. Davis also exhibited living specimens 
of young ‘‘walking-stick’’ insects (Diaphero- 
mera femorata) recently hatched from eggs 
deposited last year by an insect in captivity, 
which had been captured in Connecticut. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a copy of 
Valentines’ ‘‘Manual of the Corporation of 
the City of New York, for 1859 ” which con- 
tains, amongst other interesting things, a 
view of the old Quarantine grounds and 
buildings, at Tompkinsville, as they appeared 
in May 1858. As these buildings were burn- 
ed on Sept. tst and 2nd of that year (see 
“The Old Quarantine. Its’ Destruction and 
the Causes which Led to It,” Dr. F Hollick, 
Proc Nat..Sci. Assn. S. I., Special No. 16, 
Oct. 1893.) this view is probably one of the 
last which was taken. 
