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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 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 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

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