Literature Relating to Staten Island 



Cretaceous Pityoxyla from Cliffwood, New Jersey^ 

 In this contribution the author describes three new species of 

 Pityoxylon, or fossil pine wood : P. protoscleropitys, P. foliosum 

 and P. anomalum; and interesting comparisons are made with 

 other species, including P. statenense Hollick and Jeffrey, from 

 the Kreischerville clay beds. A. H. 



The Baker Ancestry, etc- 



This is an illustrated, cloth bound, quarto volume of 58 pages, 

 in which, aside from the main object as indicated in the title, 

 there are several notes of local interest. On page 27 is a refer- 

 ence to " Cornells Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island, etc.," and a 

 brief account of the settlement of the island by the Dutch, about 

 •1640, and their subsequent troubles with the Indians, which re- 

 sulted in armed conflict in 1643 and the abandonment of the 

 settlement. On page 34 is a copy of the " Sale & Surrender of 

 Staten Island, by Cornelis Melyn, as Patroon, to the Directors 

 of Amsterdam," after his prosecution by Director General Peter 

 Stuyvesant on a charge of laesae majestatis. On page 37 the 

 second Indian war, in 1655, is mentioned, when the island was 

 left "without an inhabitant or a house." A. H. 



The Camera to Preserve New York's Old Buildings' 

 This is an illustrated article based upon the recent work of the 

 Art Commission of the city in having photographs made of old 



iRuth Holden. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 48: 609-624, pl i-4- 

 March 1913. 



2 Baker Ancestry | The Ancestry of Samuel Baker, of Pleasant Valley, 

 Steuben County, New York, With Some of His Descendants | Compiled 

 by I Frank Baker | Chicago | 1914- 



a New York Times, May 10, 1914- 



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