18 Forty-third Annual Report on the 



Library. 



The library of the Museum was removed to the State Library 

 in the Capitol May 10, 1888, since which date it has been placed 

 in one of the alcoves of that library. The record of additions, 

 found in the appendix, is for the period November 20, 1887, to 

 May 10, 1888. 



Bulletins and Memoirs. 



The publication of bulletins has been continued and there have 

 appeared during the year the following:. No. 7. "First Report 

 on Iron Mines and Iron-ore Districts of the State of New York," 

 by John C. Smock, and "The Boleti of the United States," by 

 Chas. H. Peck. A series of memoirs has been started ; and No. 1 

 of Vol. 1. on " The Development of Some Silurian Brachiopoda," 

 by Charles E. Beecher and John M. Clarke, was issued in October. 

 It is proposed to put the more purely scientific papers of the 

 Museum staff in the form of memoirs and the more practical and 

 shorter ones in the ordinary octavo form adopted for the bulletins. 

 The demand for the bulletins has been large and their issue in 

 this convenient shape for use meets the popular want and makes 

 them serviceable. The larger quarto size of the memoirs is suited 

 to illustrations on plates of larger size, required in scientific 

 reports. The bulletin on the iron ores of the State embodies 

 the results of the field work of 1888, which was continued until 

 near the end of the year. Descriptions of the several iron-ore 

 districts are given in the first part of this report. Notes of the 

 mines in these districts with names of owners and lessees, and 

 statistics of production follow the general descriptions of the 

 districts. The demand for this bulletin has been met by a free 

 distribution to all applicants in the State and to many outside of 

 its limits, who are engaged in the iron manufacture, or are studying 

 the subject of iron-ore deposits. 



In the last annual report there was a reference to the proposed 

 issue of a second bulletin on our building stone. The prepara- 

 tions for it have been in progress during a part of the year. The 

 data needed for it are nearly all in hand ; the specimens for the 

 series of chemical and physical tests have been collected by Prof. 

 F. A. Wilber, of New Brunswick, N. J., and the work of testing 

 these specimens has been nearly all done by him. The results of 

 his examinations will be ready within a month from date, and will 

 be incorporated with other examinations and notes on the use of 



