218 FORTT-THIRD REPORT ON THE StATE MvSEUM. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Hyatt, of Cambridge, we have been 

 favored with the loan of his collection of Brachiopoda from the 

 Island of Anticosti. The peculiar forms known only at that place, 

 and from strata ranging from Lower Silurian to the Niagara 

 horizons, make the collection a peculiarly interesting one. 



GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 



HiSTOBICAL. 



The geological map of the State published in 1842 as the com- 

 bined work of the four State Geologists, was upon too small a 

 scale to properly represent the extent and limits of the geological 

 formations. Moreover, there were at that period no good geo- 

 graphical or topographical maps of the State, and the results of 

 field work could only be laid down on such as the first edition of 

 Burr's atlas, and other maps mainly compiled therefrom. It was 

 only at a considerably later period that better maps of the 

 counties, and finally of the State, were compiled ; the best one yet 

 produced, so far as known to the writer, being that by Prof. J. H. 

 French, C. E., of Syracuse, and published by H. H. Lloyd & Co.^ 

 in New York, in 1865. The want of a better geological map of the 

 State had been felt among professors and teachers, and among all 

 intelligent people, and the subject had on several occasions been 

 brought before the Legislature, but without any definite action, 

 till in 1881, when the sum of $1;000 was appropriated for 

 the purposes of field explorations for a review and revision 

 of the limits of the geological formations within certain 

 areas in the southern counties of the State, and of determin- 

 ing the relations of the New York rocks to those of Pennsyl- 

 vania. The item of appropriation in the supply bill was vetoed 

 by the Governor in June, 1880, but as the field-work had already 

 been commenced immediately after the passage of the bill by the 

 Legislature, and it was impossible to suspend the work without 

 wrong to the parties then in the field, who had commenced the 

 work in good faith, it became necessary, therefore, for the State 

 Geologist to assume the responsibility of paying for this work 

 from his personal means. The expenses thus incurred amounted 

 to somewhat over $1,200, for which no reimbursement has been 

 made. 



