Natural History Records from the Meetings 
Wiriu1am T. Davis 
SECTION OF NATURAL SCIENCE 
A meeting was held in the Public Museum April 12, 1919. 
The following items were presented and discussed: Mr. Wm. T. 
Davis read an article published in the Staten Island Daily Advance 
of March 15, 1919, which gave the impression that the seventeen- 
year “locusts”? were to appear on Staten Island this year in great 
numbers. He read from published articles in the PROCEEDINGS OF 
THE NATURAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF STATEN ISLAND, based 
on data gathered in 1885 and 1902, to show that there would prob- 
ably be no cicadas or but very few on the island in 19109. 
Mr. Davis stated that on certain of the warm days during the 
mild winter just past, insect life was often quite active. On Jan- 
uary 15, 1919, the wasp Polistes pallipes LeP. was found walking 
along the sidewalk on Vanderbilt Avenue; on January 30 the beetle 
Amara angustata Say, and a female ant, Acanthomyops claviger 
Roger, were observed walking about in the Clove Valley; on Feb- 
ruary 15, following a warm rain, the slug Limax maxima was seen 
on the sidewalk on St. Pauls Avenue, and on February 16 a second 
female Acanthomyops was found on the sidewalk in Tompkins- 
ville. 
He also showed a fine Indian mortar found in the field near 
Ward Point, Tottenville, March 22, 1919. The weathered stone 
had been hollowed by constant use, and the depression so made was 
conspicuously lighter in color. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick read a letter from Dr. Arthur H. Graves of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, dated 
Oct. 20, 1918, in which he stated that.the specimen of Globiformes 
graveolens presented to the Institute had been collected at Pleasant 
Plains, Staten Island. In Mycologia 10: 267, Sep. 1918, Dr. 
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