84 STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
This gives a concise sketch of the region from Newburgh to the 
sea with a map. Staten Island is described as “a large area of 
altered serpentine rocks,” 
taceous age which are partly covered with a thick mantle of Glacial 
Drift” and the “ Newark sandstones and shales of Jura-Trias” 
and the “ Palisades Diabase, intrusive igneous rocks.” The Caro- 
linian character of the fauna is referred to on p. 9, and the occur- 
rence of many plants of characteristically southern distribution is 
emphasized on pages 10 and IT. 
CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF CoASTAL ALGONQUIAN CULTURE, 
by Alanson Skinner, Proceedings Nineteenth International Con- 
gress of Americanists, Washington, December 1015. 
In this paper Mr. Skinner shows that the archeological remains 
in coastal New York and New Jersey are not contemporaneous 
and illustrates arrowpoints of archaic diamond-shape type from a 
shell heap at Rossville. 
A NEw SPECIES CLOSELY RESEMBLING DROSOPHILA MELANOGAS- 
TER, by A. Hy Sturtevant, in) Psyehe, vol. XDOVI, py 153-155, 
December, 1919. 
In this paper Drosophila sumulans is described and among the 
type localities “Staten Island, N.Y. (F. Schrader)” is included. 
THe “Otp Fort” AND CAMP-SITH AT RICHMOND, STATEN 
IsLANnp, by Reginald Pelham Bolton, in The New York Histori- 
cal Society Quarterly Bulletin, vol. III, p. 82-88, October 1919. 
. This illustrates and describes the old fort and its exploration by 
the author, Mr. W. L. Calver, Mr. Robert M. Hartley, and Mr. 
Oscar Barck. The work was done on Sundays in 1918 and re- 
sulted in finding as many as thirty military buttons in a day beside 
other articles of interest. Mr. Calver, who was chairman of the 
Committee on Field Exploration, lectured at the Institute meeting 
of March 20, 1920, and exhibited many of the articles unearthed. 
as well as the “Raritan clays of Cre-. 
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