one indicating the underlying forma- 
tions. The maps of the Staten island 
quadrangle should be in every school 
on the Island. 
Mr. E. C. Delevan submitted the fol- 
lowing : 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERN- 
ING COLONEL LOVERLACH. 
[The following memorandum may be 
added to my paper, which was pub- 
lished as Special No. 22 of our Pro- 
ceedings, under the title ‘‘Colonel 
Francis Lovelace and His Plantation 
on Staten Island.’’} 
It seems to have been assumed that 
Colonel Francis Lovelace, Governor of 
the Province of New York, was the son 
of Sir Richard Lovelace, Baron of 
Hurley, and was the grandfather of 
Lord John Lovelace, who died in New 
York in 1709, (2 Col. Doc. 580, note), 
until this assumption was questioned 
by General James Grant Wilson, (2 
Mem. Hist. City of N. Y. 94, 96.) 
A biographical notice in Hazlitt’s 
edition of the Poetical Works of Sir 
Richard Lovelace, lends color to Gen- 
eral Wilson’s theory, Other side lights 
are thrown upon this shadowy subject 
by poems and notes included in this 
collection, which may be found at 
pages 104, 155, 218, 221, 237, 291 and 
293, 
62 
The authority of the News Letter of 
April 12th, 1657, (Col. Fr. Lovelace and 
His Plantation on Staten Isld., p. 58), 
is doubtful upon its face. It states 
that ‘*Colonel Lovelace, brother of 
Lord Lovelace, is to succeed Colonel 
Nicholas in the government of New 
York.’’ But the name of the governor 
was Nicolls, not Nicholas. If the News 
Letter writer blundered in stating the 
name of the governor, may he not have 
blundered in stating the relationship 
of the new appointee? 
The historical question as to the 
identity of Governor Francis Lovelace 
appears to be still open. 
SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 
Mr. Wm. T, Davis exhibited the fol- 
lowing specimens : 
1. Yellow gravel sandstone from Todt 
Hill, showing concretionary structure, 
presented by Mr. W. A. Galloway. 
2. Rana virgatipes Cope, from Lake- 
hurst, N. J., a frog which has not yet 
been recorded from Staten Island, but 
which may occur here. 
3. Limnobates lineata, the ‘‘marsh 
treader,’’ captured on Staten Island 
in a plowed field some distance from 
any water. 
