Literature Relating to Staten Island 



Fiftieth Anniversary Souvenir Book of Tompkins Lodge^ 

 This is a handsome, cloth bound, octavo volume of 120 pages 

 and 34 plates, including portraits of many Staten Islanders, de- 

 ceased and living, who were or are active in the Masonic fraternity 

 in connection with Tompkins Lodge. The title page is without 

 date, but the book was printed sometime subsequent to 1909 (the 

 fiftieth anniversary year) and was distributed, so far as known to 

 the writer, in 1912. It contains a history of Tompkins Lodge; 

 by-laws ; lists of members and officers, past and present ; account 

 of the ceremonies and other functions in connection with the an- 

 niversary celebration ; reports ; etc. 



The frontispiece is a portrait of ex-Governor Daniel D. Tomp- 

 kins, in honor of whom the lodge was named, and there are inter- 

 esting cuts depicting the home of the lodge at various times, which 

 include Nautilus Hall, now only a memory to those who used to 

 travel up and down Arietta street to the old Tompkinsville ferry 

 landing; Tompkins Lyceum, now the German Olub House at 

 Stapleton, as it appeared some fifty years ago ; etc. 



The volume is a credit to those who were responsible for its 

 preparation and publication, and it possesses a local historical value 

 which everyone who is interested in our island's affairs will ap- 

 preciate. A. H. 



Cretaceous Pityoxylon with Marginal Tracheids^ 

 In this paper the author describes and discusses the peculiarity 

 and significance of ray tracheids in a specimen of Pityoxylon 

 from Morgan's, N. J., with incidental references to species of this 

 genus, and of Brachyoxylon, Araucariopitys and Prepinus de- 

 scribed by Hollick and Jeffrey from the Cretaceous deposits of 

 Staten Island. A. H. 



1 1859-1909 I Fiftieth Anniversary | Tompkins Lodge | No. 471 F. & A. 

 M. I Stapleton | N. Y. 

 2 Irving W. Bailey, Annals Bot. 25: 315-325, pi. 26. April, 1911. 



