6 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



The Subcommittee on Art, Scientific and Historical Exhibitions 



of 

 The Mayor's Catskill Aqueduct Celebration Committee 



General Com mittee 

 1 George McAneny, Chairman 



, ' Executive Committee 



Arthur Williams, Chairman Edward Hagaman Hall, Secretary 



William C. Breed William Hamlin Childs ' 



George Frederick Kunz J. W. Lieb 



Samuel L. Martin George McAneny 



William McCarroll Henry S. Thompson 



Charles H. Strong Henry R. Towne 



Museum Exhibits Committee 

 George Frederick Kunz, Chairman 



Public Museum 



Saint George, Staten Island 



Borough of Richmond, New York City 



October ii, 1917 



Catalog of Exhibits 



1. Wooden water main, made by boring out the center of a log. 



This specimen was part of the piping of the public water supply system 

 in use in lower Manhattan during the period from 1800 to 1835, prior to 

 the introduction of the Croton water. 



The water was obtained from a well located at Reade and Center streets 

 and was pumped to a reservoir on Chambers street, from whence it was 

 distributed through the wooden mains. 



A piece of the wood, submitted for examination to Prof. Edward C. 

 Jeffrey of Harvard University, was identified as white pine, Pi'nus Strohus 

 L. (See Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Is. vol. 9, p. 47, Ap. 15, 1905, and 

 p. 50, May 20, 1905.) 



2. Specimens described in a paper by Dr. Arthur Hollick on Some Botan- 

 ical and Geological Features of the Silver Lake Basin, read at the meeting 

 of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, October 17, 1914. 

 (See Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. Arts and Sci., vol. 5, p. 60-65, pl- 2-5. 

 Oct. 1914.) 



(a) Polypodium vulgare L, Common polypody fern. Rare on Staten 



Island. 



(b) Lorinseria areolata (L.) Underw. Net-veined chain fern. Re- 



corded from but a few localities on Staten Island. 



