86 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
MANUAL OF THE ORTHOPTERA OF NEw ENGLAND, INCLUDING THE 
Locusts, GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS AND THEIR ALLIES, by 
Albert P. Morse, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. XX XV, p. 197— 
556, 1920. 
References to the fauna of Staten Island are numerous in these 
important works on Orthoptera, particularly in the first named, 
and two species originally described from the island are recog- 
nized. These are Neoconocephalus exiliscanorus Davis and 
Oecanthus exclamationis Davis. The following is a comparison 
of the named species and forms considered: 
Eastern New Staten 
N. A. England Island 
LAR WIGS cacenac sa yeah ta UAE pmen Se ape ta | 12 6 3 
Cockroaches. iran ees | eiaee a ome 32 7 i 
Wantids ty hich. pel ne eee net eee 9 | 3 I 
Wrallking=stiekainsectsnn sane I2 2 I 
Shorthorned grasshoppers......... | 174 | 52 40 
Longhorned grasshoppers. .........| III | Be 26 
CricketSue oy. c. e.8 cee eee eee 61 19 20 
4II | 132 | 98 
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THe New PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Sci. 
American 123: 631, with portrait. Dec. 25, 1920. 
This is an appreciative sketch, by Dr. Marcus Benjamin, of Dr. 
Leland Ossian Howard, the recently elected president of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of Science. His scientific 
activities are briefly outlined in the text, which is illustrated by an 
excellent portrait of the subject of the sketch. Doctor Howard 
was elected to corresponding membership in the Staten Island 
Association of Arts and Sciences April 6, 1907,—the first person 
selected for that honor by our board of trustees. At the regular 
meeting of the Association, Feb. 17, 1912, Doctor Howard deliv- 
ered, by invitation, the announced lecture of the evening, on “ The 
Necessity for a National Quarantine against Injurious Insect and 
Plant Diseases.” A, Jal. 
