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these remarks to those of Biblical writers, and so on up through 
human history from the early Egyptians to the people of the pres- 
ent day, showing that insects filled no small place in the diet of 
man past and present. 
Mr. Charles W. Leng recorded a large drift boulder recently 
uncovered at the corner of Raleigh Ave. and Clove Road, West 
_ New Brighton, in a sewer excavation. The exposed part of the 
rock measured 10 ft. 9 in. by 11 ft. 3 in., and evidently a consider- 
able part of it remained under the surface. 
Mr. Edward C. Delavan, Jr., exhibited a copy of a pamphlet 
recently issued by the committee surveying for the proposed tun- 
nel, containing two pictures taken from aeroplanes. One of these 
covered St. George and vicinity and the other the salt meadows on 
the north shore. The value of such pictures in map-making was 
pointed out by Mr. Burns. 
Mr. Wm. T. Davis stated that following the recent cold weather, 
four species of birds appeared together on the same day in the 
grounds surrounding his home at St. George. The birds were 
two brown creepers, several juncos, a hermit thrush, and two olive- 
backed thrushes. The thrushes stayed during October 26 and 27 
and seemed to be attracted particularly by the berries of the nu- 
merous matrimony vines growing along a fence. He also referred 
to the rare fly Cuterebra buccata from Staten Island, exhibited at 
the last meeting, and stated that recently Mr. John W. Angell had 
given him a female Cuterebra cuniculi Clark collected by him in 
the Clove Valley, Staten Island, in June of this year. He also 
showed a Cuterebra fontinella Clark, collected on Marthas Vine- 
yard, Mass., August 1921, by Mr. Frank Morton Jones, of Wil- 
mington, Delaware. 
The meeting of. November 26, 1921, was held at the home of 
Mrs. E. E. Snow and Mrs. E. A. Stott, 78 University Place, 
Brighton Heights. 
Mr. W. Lynn McCracken spoke of the Hawaiian Islands, where 
he had lived for two years, dealing mainly with the city of Hono- 
lulu, the general character of the country, and the native customs. © 
