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Index. 



Rivula propinqualis, 96 

 Robyn's Rift, fort on, 6 



lighthouse on, 5 

 Rose-breasted grosbeak, 53 



Sabulodes transversata, 97 

 Salamander, spotted, 98 



violet spotted, 142 

 Saltmarsh beetle, 140 

 Sandstone, 8, 29 



concretion, glaciated, 28 



Triassic, 65, 138 

 Sandstones, 139 

 Sargassum bacciferum, 88 

 Satyrus alope var. maritima, 94 

 Scarlet tanager, 53 

 Schaeffer, Charles, 93 

 Schinia brevis var. atrites, 95 

 Schoharie grit, 29 

 School lectures, 38-39, 46, 125-26, 



134 

 Schott, Frederick M., 93 

 Scirpus debilis, 64 

 Scopelosoma sidus, 96 



walkeri, 95 

 Seaweeds, A Quaint Old Work on, 



.85-91 

 Selidosoma humarium, 97 

 Senta defecta, 95 

 Serpentine area, 9 



rock, 28, 61 

 dark green, 8 

 Sertularia argentea, 89 



pumila, 89 

 Shad fishery, 90-91 

 Shale, 139 



Shipman, Charles M., 108 

 Shoemaker, Ernest, 53 

 Shrew, short-tailed, 77 

 Silene caroliniana, 109 

 Silt, 62, 64 



Silver Lake basin, some botanical 

 features of, 62-64 

 some geological features of, 60- 



62, 64-65 

 reservoir, 101-2 



Skinner, Alanson, 30, 108, 142 



Capture of an Adult Ambly- 

 stoma punctata on Staten 

 Island, 98 

 Frank W., 143 

 Smith, Morton W., 40 

 Richard Penn, 40 

 Sanderson, 142 

 S. McK., 28 

 Snake, copperhead, 142 

 Snout beetles, 75 

 Snow, William L., 36 

 Soapstone rock, 61, 62 

 Spirit of the Fair, 29 

 Sponge, 89 



Spotted salamander, 98 

 Sprague, John T., 32 

 Spring beauty, 109 

 Squirrels, use of larvae as food by, 77 

 Staten Island: 



Bank, history of, 107-8 

 description of in 1857, 57 

 imposing-stone first used on, I-7 

 literature relating to. See Book 



Reviews 

 macrolepidoptera, 94-97 

 newspapers, old: New York and 

 Richmond County Free Press, 

 4; Plaindealer, 4; Richmond 

 County Mirror, i, 4; Rich- 

 mond Republican, 1-4; Staten 

 Islander, 4, 6 

 Sound, ice carnival in 1875, 114 

 views, early: alarming demon- 

 stration of Staten Island se- 

 poys, 59; Billopp House, old, 

 56; Brighton, 57; Camp Wash- 

 ington, 59; ferry boat West- 

 field, 114; Mount Hermon, 58; 

 Narrows from Staten Island, 

 55i 58; Narrows from the 

 Pavilion, 55; New Brighton, 

 58; New York from Staten 

 Island, 55; New York Bay 

 from Staten Island, 56; New 

 York Bay from near the 



