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lantern slides, and also exhibited and explained the apparatus 
used. Mrs. Beals has the only official bird-banding station in 
New York City. 
Mr. C. H. Curran of the Department of Entomology, Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History, gave an illuminating talk on 
insect life, stressing the point that a very small percentage of 
insects is harmful, and that many species are beneficial to man. 
He also explained that one often could not get any nearer than 
the family in identifying this large division of life, and that any 
student might expect to find unrecorded forms. 
Very early Saturday morning bird study groups were led by 
Dr. and Mrs. Chubb, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Nichols, Miss Helen 
Saunders and Miss Ellen Steele. Later, Dr. Kümmel led an ex- 
cursion by automobile to points of particular geological interest 
in northwestern New Jersey, with the last objective at Ham- 
burg, where he pointed out the base of the Cambrian resting on 
eroded gneiss, a land surface about 700,000,000 years old. This 
group returned to the inn for luncheon. In the afternoon they 
took a trip through Sussex to High Point, the highest spot in the 
state, where many structural features were pointed out—thence 
to Port Jervis and Culver’s Gap, with several stops for instruc- 
tion and observation. Between High Point and Port Jervis a 
very interesting fossil deposit was visited. 
Mr. Curran led a group in the morning and another m me 
afternoon, pointing out the varied and fascinating insect life to 
be found near the inn. Bird study groups were formed for further 
study in the morning and again in the late afternoon. 
On Saturday evening in the recreation hall three very in- 
structive and entertaining talks were given. The first was by 
Dr. Chubb on “Nesting Fish Hawks,” with amusing and educa- 
tional slides made by the speaker in Southern New Jersey and 
at Gardiner’s Island. Mr. Raymond H. Torrey told of the 
history and development of the Appalachian Trail, 
reference to its plant life. Mr. A. Tennyson Beals ppoxe po 
mosses, showing many slides depicting the mosses highly me 
fied, and explaining their elaborate structure, their habitats a 
the distinctions between the various groups. He also showed a 
fine collection of mosses gathered in the vicinity. Miss Margaret 
cKenny, author of a recent book on mushrooms, exhibited a 
8enerous number of her original photographs of mushrooms. 
