DEDICATION. 



To His Excellency 



LUCIUS ROBINSON, 



Governor of the State of New York: 



Sir — In accordance with the custom which has prevailed from the beginning 

 of the publication of the Natural History of the State, I have the honor to 

 present to your Excellency, Volume V, Part II, of the Paleontology of the 

 State of New York. 



Of the mechanical and artistic execution of the work I may speak in general 

 commendation, and of some portions with unqualified praise. In regard to its 

 scientific merit, I can only express the hope that students in natural science, 

 and the enlightened educators of our State and country, may find this volume 

 a contribution worthy of their acceptance, and a source of material for that 

 higher education and intelligence, which the people of New York so earnestly 

 desire, and which was the grand object of the illustrious founders of the 

 Geological Survey, and of those friends of science who subsequently 

 authorized and have directed the publication of the Natural History of the 

 State of New York. 



Hoping that in this respect the Volume herewith presented may prove 

 acceptable to your Excellency, 



I have the honor to be, 



With great respect, 



Your obedient servant, 



JAMES HALL, 



State Geologist. 

 Albany, December 15, 1879. 



