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PROCEEDINGS S. I. ASS'n ARTS AND SCIENCES. [VOL. I. 



REGULAR MEETING. 

 March i6th, 1907. 



The meeting' was held at the" residence of Mr. WilHam Allaire Shortt, 

 Tompkinsville. 



In the absence of the President the meeting' was called to order by 

 the Recording- Secretary and Mr. Shortt was elected chairman /re tern. 



Eighteen members were present. 



The minutes of the meeting- of February i6th, 1907, were read and 

 approved. 



The following' were elected to active membership: 



William I. Seaman, New Brighton. 



Clifford B. Griswold, New Brighton. 



The Secretary* called attention to the recent sudden death of Louis 

 Balmat Baker, LLB., M. D., on Tuesday, February 26. Dr. Baker 

 was elected to active membership in the Association on October 21, 

 1905. He was a reg'ular attendant at the meeting's and always expressed 

 great interest in the proceeding's. In his death the Association has 

 lost a loyal and enthusiastic friend and supporter. 



The Secretary announced that a public lecture under the auspices of 

 the Association had been arranged for the evening of April 12th, at the 

 Curtis Hig'h School, on the subject of forest preservation, by Hon. 

 James S Whipple of the New York State Forest, Fish and Game 

 Commission, and that the President had appointed a committee of 

 arrangements, consisting' of Mr. Thomas A Fulton, chairman, Mr. 

 Chas. H. Ingalls, and Mr. Georg'e S. Humphrey, to attend to all 

 details of the lecture. 



Mr. Leopold A. Comacho read the following' paper by invitation: 



OBSERVATIONS ON TWO WATER SPOUTS IN RARITAN BAY. 



On the 23d of June, 1906, I was invited by Mr. Frederick Baldwin to 

 fish during the afternoon at Giffords. In accordance with our arrange- 

 ment I met Mr. Baldwin at Giffords at two o'clock in the afternoon. 

 He came around from New Brighton in his power-launch, an eighteen 

 foot boat, and he had with him Allister Morris, a young' man the son 

 of a neighbor. They had had a rather strenuous time getting- around 

 on account of thunder squalls and had been oblig^ed to run in to the 

 pier at Midland Beach during: one of the most severe of them. 



