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ToMPKiNSViLLE . . . from the many advantages of its location — its salubrious 

 and invigorating air — its extent of prospect, and the game with which its 

 adjuncts abound — it promises fair to be one of the most frequented water- 

 ing places in the country; — at once among the most costly and magnificent 

 ornaments of the land, and of incalculable benefit to its environs." 



Announced Program 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves gave an account, illustrated by original photo- 

 graphs and lantern slides, of Ice Phenomena at Prince's Bay during the 

 Recent Cold Weather. (See this issue, p. 30.) 



Dr. Arthur Hollick ■ supplemented Mr. Cleaves' account by exhibiting 

 two newspaper illustrations in connection with former severe winter con- 

 ditions in the vicinity, viz. : 



1. Sleighing on Staten Island Sound opposite Elizabethport, N. J., during 

 the winter of 1874-75, from Harper's Weekly, March 13, 1875. (See also 

 Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. Arts, and Sci. 5: 114. Meeting of February 19, 



1915.) 



2. The Staten Island ferryboat Westfield caught in the ice in the East 

 River, February 8, 1895, from the New York World, February 9, 1895. 



Mr. William T. Davis mentioned several previous cold spells and read 

 records in connection with them from his journal, remarking that, although 

 lower records were recorded in nearby localities during these cold snaps, 

 none equalled that of the present winter for the relatively long duration 

 of the severe cold or for its record-breaking low temperature on Staten 

 Island. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, FEBRUARY l6, I918 



The meeting was held in the assembly hall of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, Staten Island. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair and twenty-five persons, 

 present. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 19, 1918, were read and approved. 



Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited and described a collection of Indian 

 relics personally collected at Mariner Harbor, where evidences of village 

 sites, and many graves, fire pits, etc., had been unearthed in a number of 

 localities during the extensive commercial development of the region in 

 1903 and subsequently, especially in a hill near De Hart's brook. 



In addition to fragments of pottery and a number of stone implements,, 

 the objects shown included oyster, scallop, and clam shells, fragments of 

 the blue crab, and bones of deer, raccoon, wild turkey, diamond-back 

 terrapin, and other remains of the food supplies on which the aborigines 

 depended. 



Apparently these evidences of Indian occupation must have dated back 

 to about 1675 or earlier, as no trace of the influence of white civilization 

 was found in connection with them. 



