LK lc or 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE NATURAL SCIENCE 
C OF STATEN 
ASSOCIATION 
ISLAND. 
VOL. IX, No. 13. 
The regular meeting of the Associ- 
ation was held at the residence of Mr. 
Wm. A. Shortt, with the president in 
the chair. 
The minutes of the special meeting of 
March 16th, of which the following is 
an abstract, were read and approved, 
viz: 
The president called the meeting to 
order and declared the special business 
to be to act upon the report of the 
Committee on Incorporation. 
Mr. Montague Lessler gave a verbal 
report of the work of the committee and 
submitted a draft of the proposed act 
of incorporation of The Staten Island 
Association of Arts and Sciences, print- 
ed copies of which had been mailed to 
each member with the notice of the 
ineeting. 
Voted: that the report of the Com- 
mittee be accepted and that the propos- 
ed act of incorporation submitted by 
the committee be approved as a whole 
and adopted, subject to such changes 
or substitutions in the names of the in- 
corporators as might be found necessary. 
Certain changes having been made in 
accordance with the above it was 
Voted: that the committ2e be request- 
ed to have the act, as amended, intro- 
duced in the State Legislature, at the 
earliest possible date and to take such 
action as it might deem advisable to 
insure or assist its passage. 
After the reading of the above min- 
utes the committee reported that ar- 
rangements had been made to have the 
MARCH 18th, 1905. 
proposed act of incorporation introduc- 
ed in the State Senate and Assembly 
on March 20th. 
The following were elected to active 
membership: 
John Rader, New Brighton 
Guillermo F, Uhink, Tompkinsville. 
Chas. E Trout, West New Brighton. 
Thos. D.Rambaut, West New Brighton. 
Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited speci- 
mens and read the following paper on 
FOOD MATERIALS USED BY THE 
STATEN ISLAND INDIANS. 
When the Raritan-Delaware Indians 
held Staten Island and the surrounding 
shores, game, fish and shell fish of all 
kinds were more or less abundant, and 
many forms of our fauna, now extinct, 
were then in existence here. 
Traces of many of these creatures, 
together with some of the less perish- 
able vegetable products of the aborigi- 
nal fields, are still to be found, more or 
less well preserved, in the old fire-pits 
and graves, wkere they were hidden or 
cast aside so long ago. The following 
is an incomplete list of remains of the 
animal and vegetable food materials 
that have thus far been noted during 
our investigations, Thanks are due to 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis for-assisianigepin 
Nes ¥ Tate 
identifications. Law 
