What Will be the Fate of the Queens Ponds? 



A report of the New York Microscopical Society — Torrey 

 Botanical Club field meeting of June 30, at Queens Pond, by 

 John M. Sheridan, Secretary of the Microscopical Society, 

 suggests that something ought to be done by the scientific 

 societies of the city and others interested in the conservation 

 of its remaining natural scenery, for the retention of the natural 

 conditions in the moraine area north of Queens and Bellaire 

 which has lately been taken by the City of New York, for a 

 new park. 



"This old favorite pond of ours was lower in water than I 

 have ever seen it," writes Mr. Sheridan, "but still teem-3 with 

 most interesting forms of insect and plant life. A great n^any 

 flying insects were noted, and I observed many forms of dragon 

 flies especially. Many birds also made the trip still more de- 

 lightful. On the way home we hiked to the pond in Mollis. 



A deep kettle hole pond, 60 feet below surrounding moraine, in Hillside 

 Park, an abandoned automobile in the edge of the water. 



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