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-of talexse schist point yet more conclus- 
ively to the indigenous origin of the iron 
ore in the serpentine. 
RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO 
STATEN ISLAND. 
The secretary read newspaper articles 
from the New York Morning Journal of 
Nov. 14th and the New York Evening 
Post of Nov. 18th, both relating to the dis- 
covery of the Mastodon’s tooth in the 
Moravian Cemetery, described at the 
October meeting of the Association. 
