THE FOUR-TOED SALAMANDER ON STAT- 
EN ISLAND, 
In 1902 the New York State Museum 
published a ‘‘ Catalogue of New York 
Reptiles and Batrachians,’’ by Edwin 
C. Eckel and Frederick C. Paulmier, 
Ph. D. In the preface, the Director of 
the Museum states that information re- 
garding the occurrence and distribu- 
tion of the various species is much to 
be desired, and that local faunal lists 
would be.of much value. Further on, 
uuder the head of Hemidactylium scuta- 
tum, the four-toed salamander, we read 
that it is ‘‘ probably to be found in this 
State.’’ 
A list of the Reptiles and Batrachians 
of Staten Island was published in 
these Proceedings for October, 1884, 
and it was there stated that the four- 
toed salamander was to be found on 
Staten Island. I am able to exhibit 
four specimens from the Island, and 
can add that most of the specimens 
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seen have come from the low-lying 
places in the hills back of the Mora- 
vian Cemetery. 
NOTES AND MEMORANDA. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a mass 
of native copper, weighing about 6 lbs, 
which was transmitted by Mr. L. P. 
Gratacap, with the information that it 
was alleged to have been found ‘‘in 
the debris of a washout,’’ on Grymes’ 
Hill, in 1880, by Mr. J. G. Ennis It 
may be a drift boulder, from New Jer- 
sey, or its occurrence may have been 
due to human agency. The surface 
shows indications of hammer or chisel 
marks. 
Mr. L. W. Freeman presented an in- 
dian celt or skin scraper, found at 
Mariners’ Harbor; also an elongated 
fragment of shale, beautifully rounded 
and scratched by glacial action, found 
by Mr. Peter M. Post at Holland Hook. 
