University of the State of New York 



New York State iMuseum 



Frederick J. H. Merrill Director 



Bulletin 66 

 MISCELLANEOUS 2 



INDEX TO PUBLICATIONS 



OF THE 



NEW YORK STATE NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY 



AND 



NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



1837-1902 



PREFACE 



The New York State Museum was established at the time 

 of the final arrangement of the collections of the Natural History 

 Survey of New York in 1843. An act of the Legislature placing 

 the collections in the custody of the Regents of the University 

 was passed May 10, 1845, and the first official report was pub- 

 lished in 1848. In 1870 a law was passed establishing the mu- 

 seum on a permanent basis. Till 1871 the museum was styled 

 the State Cabinet of Natural History and appears thus on the 

 titlepages of the early reports. For a description of the Natural 

 History Survey of New York and the origin of the State Mu- 

 seum, see Museum bulletin 19, p. 240-45, Museum bulletin 56, p. 

 5-10, University handbook 5, also Subject index under Natural 

 History Survey, p. 442. 



The publications indexed are those of the New York State 

 Museum from 1848-1902 inclusive; also the annual reports of the 

 early Natural History Survey, 1837-41; the final quarto reports 

 constituting the Natural History of New York published 1842-94; 

 papers on geology and entomology in the transactions of the 



