Literature Relating to Staten Island 75 



lands and the natural surroundings of the plants continually dis- 

 turbed. It seems that under the changed conditions they hy- 

 bridize more freely. In this connection it is interesting to note 

 that while it is difficult to find typical V. hirsntnla [a woodland 

 form], several of its hybrids have been found growing in its 

 immediate vicinity." 



This paper demonstrates what may be accomplished by pains- 

 taking, intensive work, and it should serve as a stimulus to en- 

 courage similar work on other groups of plants. 



A. H. 



Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of 



New^ York^ 



This is a folio volume, containing, in addition to statistical 

 tables of expenditures and resources for public school education, 

 a series of photographs which include pictures of the buildings 

 and diagrams of the sites of every public school in all five of the 

 boroughs. Staten Island's thirty-five elementary and one high 

 school are illustrated and described on pages 200-233. The brief 

 facts recorded in regard to locations, method by which the sites 

 were acquired, dates of acquisition of the sites and erection of 

 the buildings, cost of the sites and of the buildings, etc., are inter- 

 esting, and the pictures will be of great historic interest to future 

 generations. It is to be regretted that we have not a similar series 

 showing the old district schools, which the present buildings re- 

 placed, such ones for example as those at Bogardus' Corners, 

 Richmond A^alley, and Green Ridge. 



A. H. 



^Annual | Financial and Statistical Report | of the | Transactions | of 

 the I Board of Education of the Citj- of New York | for the Fiscal and 

 Calendar Years | 1906- 1907- 1908 | . Egerton L. Winthrop, Jr., Presi- 

 dent I John Greene, Vice-President | Henry R. ^I. Cook, Auditor | John 

 Greene, Chairman | Lewis Haase | Hugo Kanzler | Ralph McKee | Rupert 

 B. Thomas I Committee on Finance | New York, 1909. 



