1/6 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



Marshall Rea, secretary of the American Association of Mu- 

 seums. The scope of the directory includes institutions through- 

 out the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Mexico, Central Amer- 

 ica, and South America. The statistics of our Association make 

 an excellent showing in every way except in regard to material 

 on exhibition. In this respect our lack of space for the display 

 of specimens is strikingly apparent and forcibly demonstrates our 

 need of larger quarters. For example, the minerals in storage 

 number 2,500 it and those on display, 150; shells in storage, 

 2,200 dz, and on display, 260; archaeology and ethnology, 15,500 d=, 

 only a few of which are on exhibition; and botany, with a very 

 valuable herbarium, practically unrepresented in the display col- 

 lections. With few exceptions all of our specimens are identified 

 and properly labeled or numbered, so that any or all of them 

 could be placed on exhibition at any time, with full descriptive 

 data, whenever adequate facilities be at our disposal. 



A. H. 



A New Prepinus from Martha's Vineyard'^ 



In this paper the author describes and illustrates a new species 

 of ancestral pinaceous remains, from the Cretaceous clay at Gay 

 Head, Martha's Vineyard, under the name Prepinus viticetensis, 

 and discusses at considerable length its affinities with Prepinus 

 statenensis from the Kreischerville clays. Specimens of the latter 

 species are depicted in fig. i and 2, pl. 33. The local interest 

 attaching to this discussion is naturally enhanced by the fact that 

 the type of the genus is represented by a Staten Island specimen, 

 collected some four years ago, described by Dr. Jeffrey in Annals 

 of Botany 22 : 207 pl. ij, /. /. 1908 (see reviews in Proc. Staten 

 I. Assoc. 2: 99. 1908). 



The arrangement of the text is not quite as faulty as that of 

 which the author has been occasionally guilty heretofore, but it 

 is characteristically careless and shows an indifference to clear- 



' Edward C. Jeffrey. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 34: 333-338. pl. 33. 

 Jl 1910. 



