May 1907] PROCEEDINGS s. I. ass'n arts and sciences. 129 



I sincerely regret to note the death of five of our members: 



Oliver Durfee Clark. 



Georg-e Meredith Whitehouse. 



Aiig-ustus Acker. 



Richard Fair. 



Louis Balmat Baker. 

 For personal reasons, such as removal from the Borough, etc., four 

 have resigned, and one gentleman elected has been unable to avail 

 himself of the honor, owing to inability to attend the meetings. 



The trustees have elected as corresponding- member Mr. Leland 

 Ossian Howard, B. S., Ph. D., of Washington, D. C, Chief of the 

 Division of Entomology in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and 

 Permanent Secretary of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. Mr. Howard is the first to receive this honor. 



The meetings of the Association during the past year have been well 

 attended. At the meeting of February i6th, 1907, at the residence of 

 the President, the number attending was greater than ever before in 

 the history of the Association. All of the meetings have been charac- 

 terized by pleasant social intercourse as well as by discriminating val- 

 uable scientific discussions. 



For specimens and papers and interesting exhibitions during the 

 year we are specially indebted to Dr. Philip Dowell, Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner, Mr. Ira K. Morris, Dr. Arthur Hollick, Mr. James Chapin, 

 Mr. William T. Davis, Mr. John Rader, Mr. Stafford C. Edwards, 

 Mr. William Allaire Shortt, Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, Mr. L. A. 

 Camacho, Mr. Osborn M. Curtis, Mr. George S. Humphrey, and Mr. 

 H. B. Brownell. 



The Association has been hospitably entertained at the homes of 

 Mr. William H. Mitchill, Mr, William Allaire Shortt, and Mr. Justice 

 Lester W. Clark. Your President has also been honored by its pres- 

 ence at his residence. The social features of these entertainments have 

 been most delightful, and the Association is greatly indebted to the 

 gentlemen who have so hospitably entertained our members. 



The most notable social gathering of the Association was on 

 November 12th, 1906, when a banquet was held in celebration of the 

 25th anniversary of the organization of the Natural Science Association 

 of Staten Island. This banquet occurred at the Hotel Castleton. 

 Thirty-nine members and twenty-five guests, ladies and gentlemen, 

 attended the dinner. The event was unusual in the social history of 

 the Island and was marked by charming sociability and good fellow- 



