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-^ UniYersity of the State of Ne-w York
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
Forty-third Annual Report
OF THE REGENTS
For the Year 1889
TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE MARCH 2;5, 180O
ALBANY JAMES B. LYON, STATE PRINTER 1890
CONTENTS
PAGE Regents of theUniversity 5
Standing committee on State museum 6
State museum staff 6
Report of the regents to the legislature 7
Report of Assistant-in-charge 9
Additions to collections and library
1 Zoology 21
2 Mineralogy and economic geology 29
3 Geology and paleontology 34
4 Ethnology 36
5 Library 37
Report of State Botanist 49
Report of State Entomologist 99
Report of State Geologist '. 207
REGENTS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
[The Laws of 1889, eh. 529, made the State Library and State Museum departments of the University.] GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, LL. D., Chancellor
ANSON J. UPSON, D. D., LL.D.. Vice-Clamcellor DAYID B. HILL, Guvernor ..-..}
I EDWARD F. JONES, LieiUenant-Govei'nor Ex qpicio FRANK RICE, Secretary of State - - - - ANDREW S. DRAPER, Sup't of Public Instruction
In order of election by the legislature
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, LL.D., 18Gi - West ?few Brighton FRANCIS KERNAN, LL.D., 1870 ------Utica MARTIN I. TOWNSEND, LL.D., 1873 --..-. Troy ANSON J. UPSON, D.D., LL.D., 1874 Glens FaUs WILLIAM L. BOSTWICK, 1876 Ithaca CH-4UNCEY M. DEPEW, LL.D., 1877 ----- New York CHARLES E. FITCH, 1877 ------Rochester ORRIS H. WARREN, D.D., 1877 Syracuse LESLIE W. RUSSELL, LL.D., 1878 New York WHITELAW REID, 1878 -.-----. New York
WILLIAM H. WATSON, M.D., 1881 - Utica HENRY E. TURNER, 1881 ------LowAnlle St. CLAIR M( KELWAY, 1883 Brooklyn
' HAMILTON HARRIS, 1885 - Albany DANIEL BEACH, LL.D., 1885 Watkins
WILL-\RD A. COBB, 1886 - - - Lockport CARROLL E. SMITH, 1888 ------Syracuse PLINY T. SEXTON, 1890 Palmyra
T. GUILFORD SMITH, 1890 - - Buffalo
MELVIL DEWEY. M. A., Secretary Albany
ALBERT B. W-\TKINS, Ph. D., Assistant Secretary - Albany Standing Committee of the Regents on the State Museiim
ANDREW S. DRAPER, SupH of Public Instruction, Chairman
Regents KERNAN, HARRIS, BEACH AND 0. E. SMITH
State Museum Staff
JAMES HALL, M. A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic), LL. D. (Harvard)
Director, State Geologist and Paleontologist CHARLES H, PECK, M. A. (Union) .... state Botanist
J. A. LINTNER, Ph. D. - State Entomologist
JOHN C. SMOCK, M. A. (Rutgers), Ph.D. (Lafayette), Economic Geologist
JOHN M. CLARKE, M. A, (Amherst) - - Assistant Paleontologist
WILLIAM B. MARSHALL, M. S. (Lafayette) - - Assistant Zoologist
PHILIP AST Lithographer MARTIN SHEEHEY Messenger
JACOB VAN DELOO Clerk :
State of New York
No. 51 IN sknate:
March 25, 1890
FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
To the Legislature of the state of New York
I have the honor to submit herewith, pursuant to law, the
43d annual report of the Regents of the University on the New
York State Museum. aEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
Chancellor
STATE MUSEUM
N ATU RAL H I STO RY.
Report of Assistant in Charge.
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REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT IN CHARGE.
James Hall, LL. D., Director of the Neiu York State Museum of Natural History
Sir.— I transmit Herewith my report as Assistant-in-charge of the New York State Museum, for the year ending December 1, 1889. Respectfully.
JOHN C. SMOCK Albany, December 1, 1889.
Current Work.
The general care of the Museum, including the ordinary office work with its correspondence, the preparation of the bulletin on iron ores and the examination and selection of material for a second bulletin on building stone in the State, have occupied the larger part of my time. There is an in