40 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Catskill Aqueduct Celebration Publications^ 



This neatly bound volume consists of the descriptive catalogs 

 and pamphlets issued by twelve of the Greater New York organ- 

 izations and institutions that prepared and installed exhibitions 

 in connection with and on request of the Mayor's Catskill Aque- 

 duct Celebration Committee. 



The catalog of our museum exhibits, although it includes but 

 four pages, compares very favorably, in so far as its contents are 

 concerned, with its companions. Two features, especially, which 

 can hardly fail to be noted, are that each and all of our exhibits 

 were strictly pertinent to the occasion, and that they were replete 

 with local interest and significance. 



One item worthy of particular attention is in reference to the 

 old wooden water mains of Manhattan. Sections of these were 

 included in several of the exhibits, but our specimen was the 

 only one in which the kind of wood from which it was made was 

 definitely determined. The original specifications in regard to 

 these mains provided that " these logs must be of good pitch 

 pine."® Whether or not this meant Pinus rigida Mill., which is 

 the species popularly known as pitch pine today, we do not know ; 

 but we do know that the particular log in our possession is Pinus 

 Strohus L., or white pine;'^ from which it may be argued that 

 there are certain advantages in a museum which combines both 

 historical and scientific research in its activities. 



The twelve pamphlets that comprise this volume together form 

 a comprehensive and instructive story of the evolution of a water 

 supply coincident with the growth of a community; and anyone 

 specially interested in the evolution of our local conditions may 



s Catskill Aqueduct Celebration | Publications | A Collection of Pam- 

 phlets Published in Connection with the Celebration of the Completion of 

 the Catskill Aqueduct, etc. | Arranged by | George Frederick Kunz, Ph.D., 

 ScD. I Chairman of the Committee on |"Art, Scientific and Historical Ex- 

 hibitions. I The Mayor's | Catskill Aqueduct Celebration Committee | New 

 York, 1917. 8° cloth. 



6 New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Sep. 5, 1774, fide New York 

 Hist. Soc. Bull. 1 : 64. Oct. 1917. 



■^ Prog. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Is. 9 : 50. May 20, 1905. 



