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and Sciences shall be invited to subscribe, and to which a limited 

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



II. The preparation and publication, in pamphlet form, of the pro- 

 ceedings in connection with the dinner, including any addresses that 

 may be delivered, to serve as a permanent memorial of the occasion. 



III. The inauguration of a new, additional series of publications, to 

 be known as the Memoirs of the Association, designed to include, in 

 time, as complete a presentation of the natural history and antiquities 

 of the Island as possible, — each number to be a complete monograph 

 on some one subject. 



The last section of the program was referred to the publication 

 committee for consideration and report and the first section was re- 

 ferred to a committee of arrangements, consisting of Dr. Arthur 

 Hollick, chairman, J. Blake Hillyer, William H. Mitchill, Capt. Daniel 

 Delehanty, Darwin L. Bardwell, and the President, Howard R. Bayne, 

 with full power to arrange all details for the proposed dinner and to 

 carry the same to completion. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick referred to the death of George Meredith White- 

 house, at Frankfort, Germany, on June 5th, last. Mr. Whitehouse 

 was senior partner in the firm of Whitehouse and Co., bankers and 

 brokers, in New York. He became a resident of Staten Island in 1875 

 and was elected an active member of the Association in 1895. Although 

 never taking any part in our scientific work he was always pleased to 

 continue his membership and to give support and encouragement to 

 the object and aims of the Association. 



Dr. Philip Dowell referred to the death of Oliver Durfee Clark, who 

 was elected to active membership in the Association in 1904, and read 

 the following memorial: 



Oliver Durfee Clark, A. B., was born April 13, 1858, at Lakeville, 

 Livingston County, New York. He graduated from the State Normal 

 School at Geneseo in 1879 and from Rochester University in 1884. He 

 studied also at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and 

 Teachers' College in New York City. 



After his graduation he taught for some years, served as principal of 

 the Union School at Victor, N. Y., and of the Academy and Union 

 School of Baldwinsville, N. Y. In 1889 he became assistant teacher 

 of natural science and mathematics in the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, 

 and in 1895 he was promoted to first assistant, which position he held 

 until he came to Staten Island. During his last two years in Brooklyn 



