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Mr. Stafford C. Edwards exhibited specimens of oak wood serving 

 as the host of a fungus and read the following memorandum: 



an interesting staten island fungus. 



These specimens are pieces of oak wood containing mycelia and fruit, 

 disks of Chlorospleniuni ceruginosum (Oeder) De N., concerning which 

 fungus the following is quoted from Freeman's "Minnesota Plant 

 Diseases," p. 257: "The mycelium penetrates deeply, being especially 

 prominent in the spring wood. It colors the wood a beautiful, deep 

 verdigris green, varying in shade in the different parts. It is more 

 abundant in the summer wood, thus accentuating the grain. The rot 

 works very slowly. Wood, so colored by artificial infection, is used 

 in the arts in the manufacture of Tunbridge ware. It is also used for 

 the extraction of the pigment which resides both in the mycelium and 

 the adjacent walls." The green coloring is well shown in these speci- 

 mens. This fungus belongs to the Ascomycetes, the upper surface of 

 the copper-green ascocarps bearing the sacks containing the spores. 

 The fruit disks I have found but once on Staten Island, at Great Kills. 

 Prof. Underwood says in his "Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms" that 

 they are not common. 



notes and comment. 



Mr. Wm. T. Davis exhibited acorns, hickory nuts, and cocoons, 

 showing the work of squirrels in their search for insect larvae, which 

 was made the subject of an article entitled "Insects as the Food of 

 Squirrels" in the Ca^iadian Entomologist, vol. xxxix, Jan. 1907, p. 16. 

 Reprints of the article were distributed by Mr. Davis. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick remarked on the meat-eating habit of a chip- 

 munk which he had in captivity for many years and whose longevity 

 was attributed to the occasional diet of meat which it enjoyed. A note 

 on the subject was published in Science News for January, 1879. 



recent literature relating to staten island. 



I. "The Cretaceous Flora of Southern New York and New Eng- 

 land." Arthur Hollick. Monographs U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, 4to, 

 cloth, pp. 219, pis, i-xl, Washington, Govt. Printing Oflfice, 1906. 



This volume is the final result of about fifteen years of persistent 

 systematic work by the author in his investigation of the Cretaceous 

 fossil flora of Staten Island, Long Island, Block Island, Martha's 

 Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands, together with incidental 



