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served in formalin, and a living: adult male of the species, tog-ether 

 with two living specimens of Rana virgatipes Cope, which may be 

 called the "carpenter frog" by reason of its peculiar note resembling 

 the poundingf of a hammer on a board. All the specimens were obtained 

 at Lakehurst, N. J. They were made the subjects of articles pub- 

 lished in the American Naturalist for November-December, 1904, and 

 November, 1905, and additional observations are shortly to appear in 

 the same periodical. 



Mr. Davis and Mr. Alanson Skinner exhibited a joint collection of 

 the turtles of Staten Island, consisting in part of living specimens and 

 in part of preserved specimens, together with specimens of eggs of 

 Several of the species. 



Mr. Skinner also exhibited Indian relics obtained from the site of 

 Milliken's factory at Mariners Harbor, consisting of the major portion 

 of a straight clay pipe, an object not common in this region, a pin or 

 awl made from a deer antler, and a spine of the sting tzy , Dasyotis sp., 

 humerous specimens of which latter were found there. 



Mr, Ira K. Morris presented a Bible, found by Mr. Joseph B, Pierce 

 in the loft of the old County Poor House, bearing the imprint "Printed 

 and sold by Collins, Perkins, and Co., New York, 1807." From an 

 inscription in the front and from other facts ascertained in connection 

 With it, it was evident that it had been at one time the property of the 

 old Dutch Reformed Church at Richmond, now utilized as a wagon 

 factory. 



Recent Literature Relating to Staten Island. 



1. — "The Occlusion of Ig:neous Rock within Methamorphic Schists, 

 as Illustrated on and near Manhattan Island, New York." Alexis A. 

 Julien. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Set., yo\. yi\i^, 1906, pp. 387-446, pis. 

 V, vi. 



This is essentially a lithological contribution, which a lithologist only 

 is competent to adequately discuss. It is of especial interest to us, how- 

 ever, for the reason that the serpentine or soapstone rock of Staten Is- 

 land is utilized as a subject of description and analysis, and in conse- 

 quence the local references are both numerous and important. 



The author begins by defining the term "occlusion" as "foreign mass- 

 es, completely engulfed and enwrapped, whose constituents are conse- 

 quently in a state of reaction and interchange with those of the surround- 

 ing country fock, artd of general absorption into it." The term is 

 Used in order to distinguish this phenomenon from that of inclusion or 



