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The l^atural History of the Mineral Kingdom. John Williams^ 



Edinburgh, 1810. 2 vols. [DeWitt Clinton's copy.] 

 Encyclopedia Brittanica. Yols. XVIII and XIX. 

 Popular History of New England. Howard and Crocker. 



Yols. I, II, 1881. 

 International Scientist's Directory. S. E. Casino, 1885. 

 Atlas of Rockland County. F. W. Beers, 1875. 

 Atlas of Westchester County. ./. B. Beers i& Co., 1872. 

 Map of Dutchess County. Gillette, 1858. 

 Map of Putnam County. Heed, 1876. 



American Journal of Science : Yol. XXYIII, No. 167, Novem- 

 ber, 1884; Yol. XXIX, Nos. 1G9, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174; 



Vol. XXX, Nos. 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180. 

 American Naturalist : Yol. XIX, Nos. 1-12. 

 Science : Yol. lY, Nos. 98, 99 ; Vol. Y, Nos. 100-125 ; Yol. YI, 



Nos. 126, 128-151. 

 Nature : Yol. 30, No. 22 ; Yol. 31, Nos. 4-26 ; Yol. 32, Nos. 



1-20, 22, 23, 24, 26 ; Yol. 33, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 

 Geological Map of the United States, by C. H. Hitchcock. 



Julius Bien, New York. 

 Geological Model of part of Blair, Bedford, and Huntingdoa 



Counties, Pennsylvania. By Edward B. Harden, of the 



Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. 



The library has been partly re-arranged, and nearly all of the 

 journals and periodicals to date of January, 1885, have been bound. 



A manuscript catalogue is in course of preparation, made from 

 a list of the volumes, bound and unbound, pamphlets and maps in 

 the library up to the end of the current year. This catalogue will 

 make the library more serviceable to those consulting it. 



The accessions to the library of the Museum during the year 

 consist of 35 bound, and 11 unbound volumes ; 4 volumes of 

 journals ; 118 pamphlets, and 12 maps, through exchange and by 

 donations. The purchases were 26 volumes, 7 volumes of journals, 

 and 3 maps. The aggregate additions are 83 volumes, 118 pam- 

 phlets, and 15 maps. 



APPENDIX B. 



STATEMENT of the Space now Occupied, and an Estimate of the 

 Space required, for the Collections and Offices of the State 

 Museicm of Natural History. 



1. Geology. 



There are now arranged in table and wall cases 3,350 specimens 

 of rocks, representing the New York system. Two hundred and 

 fifty specimens representing the section of the Hudson river. 



These 3,600 specimens occupy 425 square feet of case-room (table 

 and wall cases) on the second lioor of the Museum. 



The additions necessary for a proper exhibition of the geology of 



