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The regular meeting of the Association 
was held at the Staten Island Academy. 
In the absence of the president Mr. Wm. 
T. Davis was elected chairman f7o tem, 
The committee on public lectures in co- 
operation with the Staten Island Academy 
reported that a program of four lectures had 
been arranged, as follows. 
Tuesday, Dec. 2nd, 1902, by Professor G. 
W Ritchey, of the Yerkes Observatory, Uni- 
versity of Chicago, on *‘Some Recent Astro- 
nomical Photographs.”’ 
Thursday, Dec. 11th, 1902, by Dr. E. O. 
Hovey. of the Department of Geology, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural Histery, New York, 
nm ‘Volcanos, Ancient and Modern.” 
Thursday, Jan. 15th, 1903, by F. W. Skin- 
ner, C. E .Associate Editor of the Engineer- 
ing Record, on ‘‘American Bridge Building.” 
Thursday, Feb. sth, 1903. by Mr. Cornelius 
Van Brunt, on ‘The Canadian Rockies and 
Their Flowers ”’ 
The lectures already given were well at- 
tended, in spite of inclement weather on each 
occasion. The lectures are free and tickets 
may be obtained by anyone by transmitting a 
stamped and addressed envelope to the 
Librarian of the Academy. 
The following were elected active mem- 
bers ; 
Arthur A. Michell, West New Brighton. 
Leavitt C. Parsons, - 
S. MeK. Smith, New Brighton 
Charles R, Tucker, New Brighton. 
Alanson B, Skinner, Tompkinsville. 
Otto G. Kan, Stapleton. 
Philip Dowell, Port Richmond, 
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OF STATEN ISLAND. 
JANUARY toth, 1903 
Mr Wm. T. Davis exhibited a complete 
series of the species of hawk moths thus far 
captured on the Island and read the following 
paper : 
STATEN ISLAND HAWK MOTHs. 
In Professor John B Smith’s catalogue 
of the Jmsects of New Jersey, there are 
mentioned a number of hawk or sphinx 
moths that are southern species, but 
which owing to their long flights are found 
occasionally near New York, Unfortun- 
ately, I have been unable to include any of 
these in this preliminary list, for although 
they undoubtedly occur on our Island, I 
have thus far failed to catch them As an 
illustration of the flight of these insects I 
may quote from Mr. August R. Grote’s Hawk 
Moths of North America. In refering to our 
Island, he says: ‘‘On one such occasion I 
discovered resting on a wild vine, which grew 
on the South Beach near the sand and the 
waters of the bay, a pair of the great green 
vine hawk PAilampzlus pandorus. One I 
took, but the other escaped me, flying direct- 
ly over the bay and out tosea, So far as I 
could watch its arrowy flight, over the smooth 
expanse of ocean, it kept its course towards 
the Atlantic, cleaving the saffron colored air, 
now turning golden under the rays of the 
sun”. 
In a recent work on Caterpillars and Their 
Moths, by Ida M. Eliot and Caroline G. 
Soule, our native species of hay and 
their caterpillars are figured” Smithsonian 7~ 
They are also mention dani 
muller’s Descriptive Catalo Miia 
found within fifty miles of tes” wands 07 
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