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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
Wien, Wil, No. 21. 
The regular meeting of the Associa- 
tion was held at the residence of Mr. 
Fred. F. Hunt, New Brighton, with the 
president in the chair. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis, for the Committee 
on Re-naming of Streets and Highways, 
reported that a complete list of all the 
street and highway names in use on the 
Island, including duplications, had been 
prepared, but that the report in its pro- 
posed final shape was not quite ready 
for submission. 
On motion the report was accepted as 
a report of progress and the committee 
was continued. 
The secretary, for the Billopp House 
Committee, reported that the Association 
had been represented by Mr. Wm. A. 
Shortt at the hearing before the As- 
sembly Committee on Ways and Means 
and that Mr. Shortt had reported to the 
effect that he considered it very doubt- 
ful if the State would undertake to ac- 
quire the property. 
On motion the report was accepted as 
a report of progress, and the Committee 
was continued. 
The following were elected active 
members: 
Winfield R. Koller, Port Richmond 
and Wm. MacDonald, Stapleton. 
Mr. Sanderson Smith stated that he 
had been authorized to offer to the As- 
sociation the mineralogical collection of 
the late Robert T. Robinson and the 
OF STATEN 
ISLAND. 
Marcu 14th, 1903. 
collection of birds nests and eggs be- 
longing to Mr. Beverly W. Robinson. 
Voted: That the collections be 
accepted, with the thanks of the 
Association, and that the secretary 
confer with Mr. Smith and arrange for 
the transfer and placing of the same 
in the Staten Island Academy. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick read the following 
paper: 
THE LATEST MOVEMENT FOR PUBLIC 
PARKS ON STATEN ISLAND. 
During the past month most of us have 
doubtless either received or seen the 
pamphlet of twenty-four pares, with 
map, entitled ‘‘Report on a Proposed 
Park System for the Borough of Rich- 
mond, New York City, prepared and 
submitted by the Committee on Parks 
of the Staten Island Chamber of Com- 
merce.’’ This represents the latest ef- 
fort of the many which have been made 
towards acquiring land for public parks 
on Staten Island, and it seems to have 
been started in the right way. 
The report consists of an account of 
the part which the Chamber of Com- 
nerce has taken in the movement, to- 
gether with the report of its Committee 
on Parks, including descriptions ofareas 
best suited for park purposes and a map 
of the Island with the areas colored in 
green. Several discre 
noted between the dgs 
areas and the areas 
