JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIV September, 1913 No. 165 
POT-HOLES IN THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
With Pirates CXXII, CXXIII anp CXXIV 
In the minutes of the meeting of the New York Academy of 
Sciences, held on June 5, 1882, may be found a record which 
possesses an historical interest in connection with the New York 
Botanical Garden. This record, as printed in the Transactions 
of the Academy, Volume I, page 181, begins as follows: 
“Dr. N. L. Britton read the following paper: 
On Some Larce Pot-HoLes, NEAR WILLIAMSBRIDGE, 
New York. 
The “pot-holes” which I shall attempt to describe were 
brought to my notice by the late Professor A. Wood. They are 
located on the western bank of the Bronx River, about midway 
etween Bronxdale and Williamsbridge, Westchester County, 
New York. They are near the w gies ern end of a now dismantled 
and impassable bridge, with st ts, and in the northern 
part of a hemlock ate which ae the stream for about a 
mile below. It is one of the most picturesque spots in the 
vicinity of New York City, sea a walk along the ad river from 
Bronxdale to Williamsbridge is we soe ryable. 
So far as the writer is aware, this er contains the earliest 
published description of ENGR Eee natural features, and 
if we replace the phrase ‘‘a now dismantled and impassable 
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