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have been dropped. 
And in fact the inference that these 
surface bowlders are ice-raft or iceberg 
pilgrims seems strongly warranted when 
we consider their sporadic nature. They 
are not shoved up into hummocks or 
ramparts; they do not, as a rule, show 
marks of englacial attrition or other 
abrasion; they certainly are not ground- 
moraine enclosures; and if carried on the 
upper surface of the glacier and dropped 
by its melting, why should not their 
prevalence over the whole island to the 
same extent, as on, what we may now 
call, ‘‘the bowlder point,’’ of Staten Is- 
land, be equally attested. 
The retrospective glance this affords us 
is not without interest. The icebergs 
drifting southward, congregatiug in 
frigid clusters over our north shore, and 
these, rocked in the alternating tides of 
the ocean and the currents from the 
north, slowly parting with their cargoes 
of transported trap, granite, and sand- 
stone. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick read the following 
review : 
RECENT LITERATURE RELATING TO 
STATEN ISLAND. 
In a paper on ‘‘Prehistorie Art,’’ etc, by 
Thos. Wilson, in the Annual Report of 
the Smithsonian Institution and U. 8. 
National Museum, for the year ending Juxe 
30, 1896, but only recently issued, is a 
1eference to the Indian stone head in our 
collection, found near the Fingerboard 
road and described in our Proceedings of 
May roth, 1884, which was sent to the 
Smithsonian Institution some years ago 
and a cast made fromit. Thereference is 
on p. 481 and accompanying it, on Plate 52 
the head is figured in profile, in company 
with that of a similar one found in Mon- 
mouth Co., N. J. The Museum catalogue 
number for our specimen is 98133. 
This is the second time that our speci- 
men has been described and figured in 
the Smithsonian publications. The first 
time was in the Annual Report for 1886, 
Part II. U. S. National Museum. The 
description is on p. Tor and the figures on 
Plate 1., representing it both full face and 
in profile. 
