168 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
on Jan. 22, 1923, at which Mr. Charles W. Leng presented a paper on 
Ecclesiastical History of Staten Island in the Seventeeenth Century (this 
issue, p. 113); on May 19, 1923, at which papers were presented by Mr. 
Tuttle on A Seventeenth Century Map of Staten Island (p. 91), Mr. 
Royden W. Vosburgh on the Settlement of New Netherland 1624, and by 
Mr. Leng on Pierre Billiou; also on March 10, 1924, at which Mr. Leng 
presented a History of the Old Church of St. Andrew. The rector, ves- 
try, and part of the congregation of the church attended the last named 
meeting. 
Members of this section, viz.: Mr. R. W. Vosburgh, Mr. E. C. Dela- 
van, Jr.. Mr. Wm. T. Davis, and Mr. C. W. Leng, have copied a large 
number of epitaphs, which with the records of several churches have been 
typewritten and bound by Mr. Vosburgh. Eight volumes have been com- 
pleted and with the help of Mr. Pieter C. Vosburgh indexed on cards. 
The churches and cemeteries thus far covered are: 
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church at New Springville, Bethel Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church at Tottenville, Woodrow Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Woodrow, Reformed Dutch Church at Port Richmond, Re- 
formed Protestant Dutch Church at Tompkinsville, Reformed Protestant 
Dutch Church at Richmond, Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at 
Huguenot, St. Luke’s Protestant Episcopal Church at Rossville (includ- 
ing gravestone inscriptions in Rossville), St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal 
Church at Tompkinsville, St. Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church at 
Richmond, Gravestone Inscriptions from Sylvan Grove, Merrill, and 
Hillside Cemeteries in former town of Northfield and The Church of the 
Ascension, Staten Island and Fountain Cemeteries in former town of 
Castleton. 
These eight volumes are embellished with a large number of photographs, 
made by Mr. Davis, and the dates cited for incorporations, deeds, etc., 
are verified by searches made by Mr. Delavan. 
SECTION OF NATURAL SCIENCE 
Charles W. Leng chairman, Edward J. Burns recorder. 
The annual meetings have been held in conjunction with meetings of 
the Nature Club, with which the section is to some extent merged. Messrs. 
Leng and Davis, members of this section, have published List of the 
Coleoptera of Staten Island, being part 1 of this volume, issued Feb. 
27, 1924. 
SECTION OF COMMUNITY THEATER 
Osborn Marcus Curtis chairman, Mrs. Alexander R. Smith recorder. 
This section was organized Feb. 17, 1924. It held an open meeting in 
the Museum on Feb. 25, at which a dramatic film, Toilers of the Soil. 
was presented. 
