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The Second Series of the Half Moon Papers will commence in January, 1898, with a paper on "Slavery in Old New York," by Edwin V. Morgan. "Tammany Hall," by Talcott Williams; "Old Family Names," by Berthold Fernow; "Bowling Green," by Spencer Trask; "Prisons and Punishments," by Elizabeth Dike Lewis ; " Breuklen," by Harrington Putnam ; " Old Taverns and Posting Inns," by Elizabeth Brown Cutting ; " The New York Press in the iSth Century," by Charlotte M. Martin and Benjamin Ellis Martin ; " Neutral Ground," by Charles Pryer ; " The Doctor in Old New York," by Francke H. Bosworth; "Old Schools and Schoolmasters," by Tunis G. Bergen ; " The Battle of Harlem Heights," by William R.