Literature Relating to Staten Island ioi 



Cretaceous Lignites from Cliffwood, New Jersey^ 



In this contribution comparison is made wtih certain of the 

 lignites from Kreischerville, described by Hollick and Jeffrey in 

 Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 3. In con- 

 nection with the Cliffwood specimens the author states that "a 

 considerable amount belongs to the genus Brachyoxylon Hollick 

 and Jeffrey I.e., p. 54, pi. i^, f. 2-6; 14, f. 2. In some cases 

 twigs were found similar in almost every respect to such speci- 

 mens as Geinifsia Reichenhachi, Brachyphyllum macro carputn, 

 etc., from the Cretaceous of Kreischerville, New York." 



A. H. 



Combined Excursion by the Municipal Engineers, etc.® 



This is an octavo pamphlet of 15 pages and 11 illustrations, 

 two of the latter being full-page plates. The title of the publica- 

 tion is descriptive of its contents, included in which are described 

 and discussed the essential facts and related engineering prob- 

 lems connected with that part of the New York City water 

 supply system which is to connect with the Staten Island dis- 

 tributing reservoir at Silver Lake. 



The total cost of the reservoir and its pipe connections under 

 New York Bay from Brooklyn, and thence along the line of 

 Arietta Street and Richmond Turnpike, is stated to be approx- 

 imately $2,000,000. The original level of the lake will be raised 

 about twenty-five feet and the capacity of the reservoir will be 

 400,000,000 gallons. In this connection the following quotation 

 from page 5 is of special interest : " In building the reservoir at 

 Silver Lake, advantage was taken of the splendid natural site. 

 It has been well said that nature has done three quarters of the 

 work in building this reservoir. To this point water will flow 

 by gravity, without any aid from pumps, from the Catskill 



s Ruth Holden. Botanical Gazette 58: 168-177. pi. 12-15. August 1914. 



^ Combined Excursion | by | the Municipal Engineers | of the City of 

 New York | and | the Brooklyn Engineers | Club | to | Narrows Siphon, 

 Richmond Conduit and I Silver Lake Reservoir I October 10, 1914. 



