I08 PROCEEDINGS S. I. ASs'n ARTS AND SCIENCES. [V^OL. I 



Any active member one year in arrears of dues shall by reason there- 

 of stand suspended until such arrears of dues are paid, and if these are 

 not paid within six months thereafter such member may be dropped 

 from the roll by a majority vote of the trustees present at any meeting 

 of the Board. 



Resolved: that Section 6, By-Law III, be amended so as to read as 

 follows: 



Sec. 6. Patro7is: Any person contributing at any one time one 

 hundred dollars ($100.00) to the general funds of the Association, or 

 other property to the value of not less than two hundred dollars 

 ($200.00), provided such property be accepted by the Board of Trustees, 

 shall be a patron, and on election by the Board shall enjoy all the 

 privileges of life membership. Any active or life member may, upon 

 making such contribution of money or other property, become a patron 

 without thereby forfeiting any of the privileges of such membership. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited specimens and read the following 

 paper on 



THE DISAPPEARING WILD PLANTS OF STATEN ISLAND. 



In their preface to the "Flora of Richmond County, New York," 

 published in 1879, Hollick & Britton state that "The Elliot Collection, 

 referred to often, is a collection made for the late Dr. S. Elliot, of New 

 Brighton, which is very valuable for containing many species whose 

 localities are now destroyed, and the plants themselves extinct." In 

 the list referred to there are a number of plants mentioned as then 

 growing on the Island that today may be accurately commented upon 

 in the words applied to the older Elliot collection in 1879. 



In 1879 the juniper {Ju7tiperus communis L.) is stated to be repre- 

 sented by "one tree of the erect variety" growing in the cedars near 

 New Dorp. This tree lived until 1891. Mr. Sharrot has informed me 

 that he remembered when junipers were numerous, the trees being 

 scattered through the groves of red cedar on the south side of the 

 Island. 



In the Proceedings of the Natural Science Association for November 

 12, 1898, Dr. N. L. Britton gives an account of the finding of what 

 presumably were white cedar logs, by Mr. John J. Crooke, in a swamp 

 at Great Kills. This tree {Chamaecyparis thyoides L.) had not been 

 reported as growing on §taten Island. Mr. Daniel Wandel has in- 

 formed me that when he was a boy there were many white cedar trees 

 growing in a swamp at what is now called Clifton. The swamp, since 



