(A.) 

 REl'OHT OF THE CURATOll. 



To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of 

 the State of New Torlr. 



Gentlemen : 



I have the honor to present to you the following communica- 

 tions regarding the condition of the State Cabinet of I^atural 

 History, with a statement of the work done, and additions 

 made to the Museum in the several departments, during the past 

 year. 



At the close of last year (1868) I reported to jouv Board tlie 

 changes which had been made on the second and third floors of 

 the Museum, by which we were enabled to make a better classi- 

 fication and more satisfactory exhibition of the collections of 

 the several departments. The cases for the arrangement and 

 exhibition of the Geological and Palfeontological collections, 

 then in progress, have been completed, and the greater part of 

 them have been alread}^ occupied. The collection of Brachio- 

 poda has been increased by a large number of specimens from 

 those described in the fourth volume of the Palaeontology of 

 the State. I shall likewise soon be able to make considerable 

 additions among the other classes of fossils. 



A series of specimens from the Niagara group, at Waldron, 

 Indiana, has been added to the collection, for the double pur- 

 pose of atfording means of comparison of the fauna of that 

 locality with the fauna of the same horizon in New York, and 

 of illustrating the species described some time since in the 

 Transactions of the Albany Institute. 



The work of arranging and labeling the duplicate specimens 

 of fossils for distribution has progressed as rapidly as other 



