fact remains that no authority now exists which will justify the legal conclusion that the plaintiff's signs constitute a nuisance." Justice Leventritt said that while it is true that the courts sustained the right of the subway company to rent space for advertising signs and weighing machines in the stations of a part of the subway, that decision was based upon a practically universal custom. He said that the Fifth Avenue Coach Company did not satisfy him by evidence that as such it has an equal right, and added: "It does not show that the exterior of the elevated cars, the subway cars, or the street cars is utilized for the display of advertising signs, but proves the contrary." The decision is a conspicuous victory for organizations like this which have been trying for years to place some restraint on the extravagant form of advertising constituting what is popularly known as the "bill-board nuisance." SITES AND INSCRIPTIONS. During the past year, the Society has been invited to pass upon the authenticity of one site, and two inscriptions: Fort Constitution Site. As stated on page 97, the representative of the War Department requested the assistance of the Society in investigating the history of a portion of the site of Fort Constitution, later embraced under the name of Fort Lee, on the Palisades opposite New York city, generously tendered to the Federal government by Dr. James Douglas, of New York city. We were happy to place at the lis posal of the government historical maps and information which assisted the officials in arriving at their decision to accept the gift. James Hall Tablet in Letchworth Park. In February, 1908, Dr. John M. Clarke, State Geologist, in behalf of himself and others named below, offered to erect a tablet to the memory of Prof. James Hall in Letchworth Park, and submitted the following inscription which was approved: JAMES HALL STATE GEOLOGIST OF NEW YORK. 1837-1898. ESTABLISHED IN THIS FOURTH GEOLOGICAL DISTRICT THE CLASSIFICATION OF A LARGE PART OF THE NEW YORK SYSTEM OF GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS WHICH GAVE ENDURING REPUTE TO THE GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK AND WAS THE FOUNDATION OF ITS AUTHOR'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE. THIS GORGE, EMBRACING THE THREE PORTAGE FALLS, EXHIBITS THE TYPICAL EXPRES SION OF HALL'S PORTAGE GROUP WHOSE ROCKS CARRY AN ASSEMBLAGE OF ORGANIC REMAINS MORE WIDELY DIFFUSED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER GEOLOGICAL FORMATION. THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED BY Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; John J. Stevenson, Professor of Geology, New York University; John C. Smock, Commissioner Geological Survey of New Jersey; Charles Schuchert, Professor of Geology, Yale University; John M. Clarke, New York State Geologist. West Battery Tablet, New York City. In March, 1908, the Coast Artillery Corps, N. G. N. Y., Ninth District, in behalf of itself and the Society of the United States Daughters of 1812, submitted the following inscription, to be placed upon a tablet upon the building in Battery Park, New |