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these unfortunate affairs, for fighting commenced as soon as it 

 possibly could, namely with the discoveries of Hudson, in 

 September 1609. 



Chapter five deals with the archeology of the region and 

 chapter six with " The Relics of Our Indians." Owing to the 

 lack of illustrations these matters are not as fully treated as they 

 are in The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower Hudson, 

 contained in the Anthropological Papers of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Vol. Ill, to which the author very prop- 

 erly refers the reader. 



There is a bibliography and a very satisfactory index. 



W. T. D. 



The Indians of AIanhattan Island and Vicinity^^ 

 This is a pamphlet of fifty-four pages, including twenty-seven 

 plates and figures, without any indication of the date of issue. 

 This may be assumed, however, to be April 191 5, inasmuch as 

 this is the date given in the list of publications. It includes a 

 large part of the subject matter contained in the author's previous 

 works on The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower 

 Hudson (see Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. 3: jt^. 1910) and The 

 Indians of Greater New York (see ibid., this issue, p. 104). It 

 contains considerable information relating to the aborigines of 

 Staten Island, and the resources of our museum were, necessarily, 

 freely utilized in its compilation, especially for purposes of illus- 

 tration, although the author fails to acknowledge his indebted- 

 ness in this connection. Anyone not familiar with our collections 

 of local material would be entirely unaware of the fact that most 

 of the pictures of typical stone implements are from photographs 

 of our museum specimens. Incidentally it may also be perti- 

 nent to remark that in the bibliography there is no reference to 

 our Proceedings, nor is there anywhere any mention of the 

 pioneer work of the members of our Association in collecting the 

 material and recording the facts in connection with them, which 

 the author has utilized to such advantage. 



^1 Alanson Skinner. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Guide Leaflet Series No. 41. 



