294 Forty-third Report ox the State Museum. 



In this connection I beg leave again to urge upon the committee 

 of the Stat« Museum the great importance of having selected from 

 the very large collection of fossil corals a series of specimens for 

 their special study, leaving the remainder for disposition as dupli- 

 cate collections. Until such selection is fully made it becomes 

 impracticable to distribute any part of this collection which now 

 occupies twenty-five large boxes, which are piled in the rotunda, 

 four large tables of five shelves each, and 608 drawers, of which 

 nine are filled with cut and polished specimens, and also a long wall- 

 case in the corridor containing about 500 large specimens. I may 

 likewise mention the fact that all the draws of the large room 

 appropriated to the duplicate collection are filled with specimens 

 while there remain many boxes filled with specimens which it is 

 very desirable to have taken out and arranged. 



PALAEONTOLOGY. 

 Volume Vn. 



The printing upon Volume \J1 Palaeontology of New York was 

 begun in September ; the first proofs coming to hand early in 

 October of the present year. At the time of the present writing 

 more than one-half of the manuscript has been delivered to the 

 printer and more than one-third of the matter is in type. 



Of the proposed number of fifty-five plates, forty-five have 

 already been lithographed, leaving ten plates in preparation and 

 progress. 



The accompanying synopsis of the contents of the volume, 

 together with the list of plates will serve to give some more definite 

 idea of the nature of the work in progress. 



