PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
“THE NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 
OF STATEN 
ISLAND. 
VOL. IX, No 6. 
_ The regular meeting of the Associ- 
- ation was held at the residence of Mr. 
Wm. A. Shortt, Tompkinsville, with 
_ the president in the chair. 
Mr. Shortt read a paper, illustrated 
_ by blackboard sketches and diagrams, 
ON SOME VAGARIES OF VOTERS: A STUDY 
_ OF DEFACED AND DEFECTIVE BALLOTS, 
_ which will be issued as a special num- 
_ ber of the Proceedings. 
" Mr. Wm. T. Davis read the following 
memoranda: 
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WOLFFIA IN THE CLOVE VALLEY. 
_ Inthese Proceedings for December 9th, 
1893, Mr. Thomas Craig reported the 
‘discovery on the Island of Wolffa, the 
smallest native flowering plant. The 
plant remained abundant in the Old 
Town pond for several years and then 
disappeared. In the summer of 1903 I 
found Wolfia very plentiful in Clove 
; broke in the Clove Valley during the 
a rain of October 8th and 9th, 1902. 
APRIL 9th, 1904. 
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TWO OLD BOOKS EY STATEN ISLANDERS. 
“*“The American Grape Growers 
Guide,’’ written by the late Mr. Wm. 
Chorlton, one of the early members of 
this Association, was published in 1856. 
It is of interest to find that the book is 
still well thought of. and intheir de- 
ecriptive list of ‘Rural Books,’* 1902-3, 
Orange Judd Co. refer to it as ‘‘a prac- 
tical treatise on the cultivation of the 
grape vine in the hot-house, cold grap- 
erye ete. 
Another old book by a Staten Island- 
er, but which would not be considered 
very useful to-day, is ‘*The School Ge- 
ography, by John J. Clute, New York. 
Published by Samuel Wood & Sons: 
No. 261 Pearl Street, 1833.’’ In 1877 
Mr. Clute issued the ‘‘Annals of Staten 
Island,’’ which has been included in 
the two histories of our Island publish- 
ed since that date. 
RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO 
STATEN ISLAND. 
The secretary called attention to a 
copy of the Proceedings of the First Gen- 
eral Convention to ee > eae 
Involved in Mosqua ea termination, 
transmitted by Mr. Walter C. Kerr. \ 
This is an octavo volumes, SopaEe $ 
excellently illu gated and containi 
valuable up-to-da 
