V. 



Reviews of Recent Literature Relating to Statex Island. 



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The orig^in of certain place names in the United States lo 



Report of the New York Ba}^ Polkition Commission to the Hon. 



Frank W'ayland Higg^ins, Governor, March 31, 1905 11 



Report of the Staten Island Committee of the Municipal Art Society 12 



Note on the discover}^ of amber at Kreischerville, in Nature 13 



The normal distribution of chlorine in the natural waters of New 



York and New Eng^land 17 



The production of precious stones in IQ04 26 



Amber found in goodly^ quantity 30 



Orig-in of the amber found on Staten Island 30 



Affinities of certain Cretaceous plant remains commonly referred to 



the genera Dammara and Brac/iyp/iylhtm 45 



Underground water resources of Long Island, New York 68 



The occlusion of igneous rock within metamorphic schists, as illus- 

 trated on and near Manhattan Island. New York 76 



On Cretaceous Pityoxyla 79 



On the founding of colonies by queen ants, with special reference to 



the parasitic and slave-making species 80 



The Frog Book: North American toads and frogs, with a study of 

 the habits and life histories of those of the northeastern states. 80 



Observations on the occurrence of Boott's fern 87 



Pereh Lake mounds, with notes on other New York mounds, and 



some accounts of Indian trails 87 



The Cretaceous flora of southern New York and New England. ... 95 



The wound reactions of Brachyphyllum 98 



The structure and wound-reactions of the jNIesozoic genus Brachy- 

 phyllum 99 



Hybridization of wild plants 116 



Report of the Department of Botanical Research (Carnegie Insti- 

 tution, Year Book No. 5) 118 



New species of gall-producing Cecidomyiidae 136 



Necrological Notices. 



George Meredith Whitehouse 72 



Oliver Durfee Clark "72 



Augustus Acker 88 



Richard Fair 93 



Louis Balmat Baker 100 



Index. 



Subjects and titles 1 37 



Scientific and common names 14' 



Illustrations. 



Platf 



Fungi enclosing various objects (Edwards, p. 33 1 



Nesting tree and young of barred owl (Chapin, p. 73) H 



Hailstones at Princes Bay, June 23, 1906 (Cleaves, p. 133) Ill 



