cockatoo. Specimens ami remarks. Mtt. FniiD. A. Lrr.vs, W'a-hin^- 

 ton, D. C. 21. Homologies of the principal bones. Mr. Pbed. A. 

 Lucas, Washington, D. C. Friday, September 22. 1. Election of 

 officers for 1891-93. Election of Delegate and Alternate to the 



„ business. 



Natural Science Association, of Staten Island. — Janwaj^ 

 9th, 1892.— The following paper, illustrated by maps and specimens, 

 was read by Mr. Arthur Hollick : 



On the 4th of April, 1881, Dr. N. L. Britton read a paper before 

 the New York Academy of Sciences on the geology of Richmond 

 County. This paper was puMi-hed in the Annals of the Academy, 

 vol. ii, No. 6, and in it the prediction was made that Cretaceous clays 

 would be found beneath the drift to the South and East of the Arch- 

 aean Ridge wherever this covering of the drift might be removed. At 

 that time Dr. Rritton \\<v<\ the following words: " No fossil leaves or 



knew what ought to 



Definite evidence in regard to the subject has been slowly acclima- 

 ting, and especially during the past three months, important f :ld * 



