INTRODUCTION 



Resolution adopted by the Association, May ig, 1906 



"Mr. J.Blake Hillyer referred to the fact that the 12th of next 

 November would be the 25th anniversary of the organization of the 

 Natural Science Association of Staten Island and suggested that the 

 event should be recognized in some manner suitable to the occasion. 



Resolved, that the Board of Trustees be requested to consider and 

 to formulate a program to celebrate and commemorate the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the organization, on November 12th, 1881, of the 

 Natural Science Association of Staten Island*'. 



[Abstract from the minutes of the annual meeting of the Association, held on 

 S Saturday, May 10, 1906] 



Report of the Executive Committee 



'"Items of business referred to the Committee by the Board of Trustees 



were presented by the Secretary and acted upon as follows; 

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Voted: that the following program be suggested for the celebration 

 and commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the organization, on 

 November 12th, 1881, of the Natural Science Association of Staten 

 Island: 



ist — A subscription dinner on November 12th, (906, to celebrate the 

 completion of twenty-five years of organized scientific work on Staten 

 Island, to which all members of the Staten Island Association of Arts 

 and Sciences shall be invited to subscribe, and to which a limite<l 

 number of guests of the Association shall be invited to attend. 



2nd — The inauguration of a new, additional, series of publications, 

 to be designated '* Memoirs of the Staten Island Association of Arts 

 and Sciences," designed to give, in time, as complete a presentation as 

 possible of the geology, botany, zoology, archeology and antiquities of 

 Staten Island in a uniform style,'— each number of the series to deal 

 with one subject only, and to be a complete monograph in itself, — the 

 title of the series to be followed by the legend "Established 

 1906, to commemorate the organization, on November 12th, 1881, of 

 the Natural Science Association of Staten Island," or some legend to 

 the above efifect." 



[Abstract from the minutes of the meeting of the Executive Committee, held 

 on Tuesday, July 17th, 1906] 



