The Indian corn we have found dif- 
fers in many ways from the modern 
variety. The cobs were very much 
shorter and more pointed and contain- 
ed fewer and larger kernels. Strarge 
to say it is not common, and only local. 
When any is found, however. it is 
usually in a good state of preservation. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited speci- 
mens of the small shrew mouse ‘A/arina 
parva Say) and read the following 
paper: 
AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF NEW YORE 
STATHK MAMMALS. 
The N. Y. State Museum published 
in 19 0a ‘‘Key to the Land Mammals 
of Northeastern North America.’’ by 
Gerrit S. Miller Jr. In that paper 
occurs the following note on the small 
shrew (&larina parva Say): ‘*The small 
Blarina is common in meadows and old 
fields throughout the upper austral and 
ana lower austral zones in the eustern 
United States. Its range therefore ex- 
tends north about to the southern bord- 
er of New York.’’ The species was, 
however, not included in Mr. Miller’s 
“Preliminary List of New York Main- 
mals,’’ published in 1899, for at that 
time he had no knowledge of its having 
been taken within the limits of the 
State. 
In De Kay’s work on the Mammals 
ef New York, published in 1842, he 
says that he has not had an opportun- 
ity of examining the species but thinks 
it ought to occur within the State. In 
1842 the information concerning some of 
our mammalsand their distribution was 
much less perfect than itis to-day, and 
De Kay for example mentions several 
shrews under different names that are 
now considered but one species. 
In this instance, however, De Kay’s 
supposition that the small S#/larina 
would be found in our state was well 
founded, for we are able to exhibit two 
specimens collected on Staten Island. 
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The first of these was found by the 
writer on the sandy part of Long Neck 
(Linoleumyille), where, with Mr. Alan- 
son Skinner we had gone to look for 
Indian implements, on the 13th of 
March, 1904. It was dead, and had 
probably been captured by an owl, or 
some other creature and then abandon- 
ed. Several mice and shrews have 
been found dead on our Island that 
were torn and multilated by their cap- 
tors and then left on the top of some 
boulder, or on the ground. 
For the facts concerning the second 
specimen I am indebted to Dr. Philip 
Dowell, who informs me that the shrew 
was found by one of his pupils, Mr. 
Louis G. Woehrle, inthe cellar of his 
home, 329 Lexington Ave., Linoleum- 
ville, February 25th, 1905. Mr. Woehrle 
says the shrew ran out of the wood pile. 
The fact that both these specimens 
came from Linoleumville is interesting. 
In order to make sure that the identi- 
fication of the species was correct, the 
specimen collected in March, 1904, was 
submitted to and identified by Dr. J. 
A. Allen of the American Museum of 
Natural History. 
In the ‘‘Preliminary List of the Mam- 
malia of Staten Island,’’ printed in our 
Proceedings for August, 1885, the only 
shrew mentioned is Blarina brevicauda 
Say. 
Dr. Philip Dowell exhibited speci- 
mens and read the following memoran- 
da on 
ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF STATEN 
ISLAND. 
Micrampelis lobata (Michx.) Greene. 
During the winter of {902-3 I found the 
network remains of the fruit of this 
plant, on the west side of Palmer’s Run, 
near Port Richmond, and the following 
summer I collected herbarium spec- 
imens. Mr. Charles W. Leng had 
noticed the plant in the same locality, 
on the east side of the brook, in the 
