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which they often completely defoliate. Specimens were found last 

 summer at Jamesburg, N. J., which is less than fifteen miles from the 

 western end of our Island. Though found so widely distributed in 

 New Jersey, it has not been discovered, as far as I am aware, nearer to 

 the ocean than Lakehurst, where it has been plentiful for a number of 

 years. It is hoped that if the insect be found on the Island the matter 

 will be reported, as the spread of these species northward and eastward 

 is of some interest. Several accounts of the Catalpa Sphinx by Prof. 

 Smith are to be found in the reports of the Entomological Department 

 of the New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station; and in 

 Entomological News iox October, 1905, Dr. Holland gives an interest- 

 ing report upon the spread in recent years of this insect in southern 

 Indiana and the damage it causes to Catalpa trees. 



Specimens Exhibited. 



Mr. Staflford C. Edwards exhibited specimens of bird-nest fungi, 

 collected on the Island, including the species Granularia pulvinata 

 (Schw.) Kuntze and Cyathus striatus (Huds.) Hof!'ni. 



Mr. Howard R. Bayne exhibited specimens of the stem of poison 

 ivy {Rhus radicans L.), showing the aerial rootlets and eccentric posi- 

 tion of the pith. 



Mr. Leavitt C. Parsons presented a copy of the Staten Islander dated 

 September nth, 1847. 



Mr. William H. Mitchill presented a fac simile copy of Frank Leslie s 

 Illustrated Newspaper dated December 15th, 1855. containing a de- 

 scription and picture of Sailors Snug Harbor. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited wampum, a wooden mask, a spirally 

 feathered arrow shaft, and other Iroquois Indian relics, and commented 

 upon the same. 



Notes and Comments. 



Mr. William T. Davis remarked upon the recent agitation in con- 

 nection with the proposed public tuberculosis hospital 0:1 the Island, 

 and read an extract from Clute's "Annals of Staten Island," published 

 in 1877, in which the climate of the Island is referred to as "celebrated 

 for its salubrity, except for affections of the lungs and throat." 



Mr. James Chapin stated that a number of individuals of the Great 

 Northern Shrike {Lanius borealis Vieill.) had been recently seen on 



