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BY ARTHUR HOLLICK, CURATOR-IN-CHIEF 



N„. 72. Published Monthly at New Brighton, N. Y. JULY, 1914 



With the adjournment of the annual meeting of the Association on May 

 16 the formal routine activities of the Association ceased temporarily until 

 the date of the next regular meeting in October. 



On May 28 the Board of Trustees held a special adjourned meeting of 

 its annual meeting to consider the budget estimates to be included in the ap- 

 plication to be made to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the 

 maintenance of the Museum during the year 1915, and a tentative budget was 

 approved and adopted. 



In the early part of the present month our members were agreeably 

 surprised by the receipt of an invitation from Dr. N. L. Britton and Mr. 

 Richard H. Britton, to attend a joint meeting with the members of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club of New York, at Great Kills, on July 16, to assist in the inau- 

 guration of "Salt Water Day''' on Staten Island, "for the study of marine 

 and coastal flora and fauna." Mr. Sereno Stetson was authorized to sign the 

 invitation for the Torrey Botanical Club and Dr. Arthur Hollick for the Staten 

 Island Association of Arts and Sciences. Forty-five members and guests of 

 the two organizations attended the function. All met at Sauer's pavilion at 

 10.30 a. ml, from whence they were conveyed by motor boats to Crooke's Point, 

 where about two hours were spent studying the topographic features — the 

 sand spit and dune formations and the elongation of the Point to the south 

 and its erosion at the northern end — and collecting zoological and botanical 

 specimens, taking photographs, etc. The return trip was made at 12.30 p. m., 

 and at 1.30 a fine shore dinner was served. After dinner brief addresses were 

 delivered, by Professor Robert A. Harper, president of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, on behalf of that organization ; by Mr. James R. Walsh, as a member 

 of the board of trustees of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, 

 on behalf of the Association; by Dr. Arthur Hollick, on the principal topo- 

 graphic features of Crooke's Point and their significance; by Dr. Marshall A. 

 Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, on the generic and specific charac- 

 ters of the sea weeds collected ; and by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, on the shore 

 birds of the region. Mr. Prank D. Tansley, president of the Patria Club of 

 New York, discussed "the amenities of nature," and Mr. Prank W. Skinner 

 expressed the pleasure of the assemblage on the complete success of the day's 

 program, and moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Britton and Mr. Richard H. Brit- 

 ton, for their courtesy in assuming all of the responsibilities of hosts for the 

 day, which was carried unanimously. Subsequently the party divided. Some 

 returned home by train and automobile. One contingent was taken by motor 

 boats to the head of Mill Creek and from thence walked to Oakwood Station 

 under the guidance of Dr. Hollick, and another, with Mr. Cleaves as guide, 

 walked through the fields and woods to the Great Kills Station. Among 

 others who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Anton W. Hoffmeyer, Mrs. Ethel L. 

 Kraft, Mrs. James R. Walsh, Mrs. N. L. Britton, Miss Britton, Mrs. Arthur 

 Hollick, Mrs. H. Prescott Wells, Mrs. Robert H. Pentz, Miss S. Gertrude Clark 

 Miss Leslie Spencer, Mr. S. M. Dix, Prof. Pietro Marzen, Mr. James C. Marriott,' 

 and Mr. C. M. Shipman, representing Staten Island ; Dr. Frank E Lutz of the 

 American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Edgar W. Olive and Mr Norman 

 Taylor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Dr. Fred J. Seaver and Mr Percy 

 Wilson of the New York Botanical Garden, and Dr. Frederick V. Rand of the 

 u. &. Department of Agriculture. 



