publications above mentioned. By some 
means the information is made to ap- 
pear as if obtained from the U. S. 
Geological Survey at Washington. 
SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited the fol- 
lowing objects: branch of a tree anda 
eoccoon, showing the work of wood- 
peckers in their search for larvae. 
Where coccoons are suspended on 
slender branches the birds have con- 
siderable difficulty in opening them, on 
account of theswaying ard consequent 
lack of resistance to the impact of 
blows; shoots of wild cherry, dogwood, 
apple and benzoin, from the vicinity of 
Moravian Cemetary, girdled by rabbits 
during the past winter, indicating that 
the animals were hard pressed for food; 
twigs of an apple tree, covered with the 
San José scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus 
Ww « ~ + !@ 
Comst.), and, for comparison, a lilac 
twig with some of the common scale in- 
sects attached; a pieceof soapstonefrom 
an outcrop in Simonson’s brook, near 
Richmond Hill, representing an expos- 
ure further to the westward than any 
previously recorded on the island. 
Mr. L. W. Freeman presented two 
jasper arrow points, apparently rejects, 
found at Mariners’ Harbor. 
Mr. Chas P. Benedict exhibited a 
collection of silicified wood, and sand 
concretions, from Southern Pines, N. 
Carolina and a skull of a rattlesnake, 
with the poison fangs attached, from 
Palm Beach, Florida Also section of 
of a wooden water main, in use in New 
York City until about 1835, and recent- 
ly unearthed. The wood is remarkably 
well preserved. 
