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Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited specimens of the butternut and read 

 the following' note: 



Several trees of the butternut {Juglans cinerea L.) were recently dis- 

 covered along the course of the brook which flows near the western 

 boundary of Prohibition Park and forms one of the branches of Palmer's 

 Run. 



The occurence of other trees was noted by Mr. William T. Davis in 

 the vicinity of Sand)^ Brook, Pleasant Plains {Proc. Nat. Sci. Assn. 

 S. /., Ap. nth, 1889), and near the Rossville Road {Ibid., Oct. loth, 

 i88g); and Dr. Samuel Ackerly includes the species in a list of trees 

 published in his "Supplement to the Ag-riculture of Richmond County" 

 {Trans. N. Y. State Agric. Soc. 1843, p. 460). All these records, 

 however, refer to trees in the southern part of the Island, so that the 

 new locality is of interest on account of its apparent isolation. It is 

 not improbable, however, that the butternut, like its near relative the 

 black walnut, was formerly more common here than we now find it to be. 



Mr. James Chapin exhibited living" specimens of the western chip- 

 munk of Wyoming^, Eutaniias quadrivittatus TSay) , tog"ether with a 

 skin of the eastern chipmunk in order to show the differences in mark- 

 ing- and coloring" between the two species. 



The Secretary read the following- reviews of 



Recent Literature Relating to Staten Island. 



I. — "The Orig-in of Certain Place Names in the United States" (second 

 edition). Henry Gannett. Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 258. Pamph., 

 8vo., pp. 334. Washington, D. C, 1905. 



This is a revised edition of the work published under the same title 

 in 1902 as Bulletin No. 197, and reviewed in the Proceedings of the 

 Natural Science Association of Staten Island of Feb. 14th, 1903. The 

 same criticisms made at that time are applicable now, except that it is 

 still more difficult to understand how such obvious and readily acces- 

 sible sources of information as are contained in the Proceedings could 

 continue to be overlooked, especially as there was issued, since the 

 publication of the previous review, Mr. Wm. T. Davis' " Supplement 

 '•to Staten Island Names, etc." {Proc. Nat. Sci. Assfz. S. /.. Vol. viii, 

 No. 25, Special No. 23, Oct. 1903), and a complete file of the Proceed- 

 ings is in the library of the Survey. 



This naturally leads to the suspicion that the work has been prosecuted 

 in a somewhat haphazard manner, although in the introduction the 

 author says : "During- the compilation of this work a larg-e correspond- 

 ence was carried on with State and local historical societies, State, 



