Literature Relating to Staten Island 



Coniferous Woods of the Potomac Formation^ 



Although this article deals especially with fossil coniferous 

 woods of Lower Cretaceous (Potomac-Patuxent) age from the 

 District of Columbia there are several references to and com- 

 parisons made with similar woods from Kreischerville, described 

 by Hollick and Jeffrey in Memoirs of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, volume 3, and from localities in New Jersey described by 

 the same authors and others. 



Podocarpoxylon McGeei (Knowlton) n. comb., and Paracu- 

 pressinoxylon potomacense n. sp. are described and figured, and 

 there is more or less extended discussion of the meaning and 

 value of certain features of woody structure in connection with 

 the determination of tribal and family relationships of other Cre- 

 taceous genera, such as Brachyphyllmn, Raritania, Androvettia, 

 Araucariopitys, etc., to which the author refers as " masquer- 

 ading araucarians." 



A. H. 



Historic Dutch Houses upon Old Staten Island^ 



This article includes illustrated descriptions of the Clawson 

 House on the east side of New Dorp Lane ; the Jacobson-Vander- 

 bilt House on the west side of the .lane, nearly opposite the latter ; 

 the Scott-Edwards House on Manor Road, now the residence of 

 Mr. A. A. Michell ; the Perine House on Richmond Road ; the 

 Britton Cottage, designated by its old name Cubberly House 

 (Proc. Staten Is. Assoc. 5: 68-74); and the Guyon-Clark 

 House (ibid. 6: 11 3-1 39). 



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1 E. W. Sinnott and H. H. Bartlett. Amer. Jour. Sci. 41 : 276-293, 

 /. i-t8. Mr 1916. 



- Harriet S. Gillespie. The New Country Life 31: 74-75. Ap 1917. 



