REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I916 21 



IV 



DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS 



During the year the bulletins of the Museum have been issued 

 as rapidly as circumstances permitted. They have the following 

 numbers and titles : 



181 The Quarry Materials of New York. By D. H. Newland 



182 The Geology of the Lake Pleasant Quadrangle. By William 



J. Miller 



183 Glacial Geology of the Saratoga Quadrangle. By James H. 



Stoller 



184 The Constitution of the Five Nations. By A. C. Parker 



185 The Precambrian Rocks of the Canton Quadrangle. By 



James C. Martin 



186 31st Report of the State Entomologist 191 5. By E. P. Felt 



187 Director's Report for 191 5 



188 Report of the State Botanist for 191 5. By H. D. House 



189 Paleontologic Contributions from the New York State 



Museum. By Rudolf Ruedemann 



The State Museum Bulletin is now issued as a regular monthly 

 periodical. This arrangement holds back in some degree the num- 

 ber of reports which can be issued in any one year, as it seems 

 impracticable w^ith the present sei'vice to issue more than one a 

 month, while it might be possible for the staff to prepare more 

 than twelve a year. 



The Wild Flowers of New York. Under provision of the 

 Legislature the preparation of this monograph has gone forward 

 with entire success, and the detailed account of its present condi- 

 tion will be found in the report of the State Botanist. It is believed 

 now that all the necessary color plates for illustration have been 

 taken and the preparation of the text for these volumes is advanc- 

 ing favorably, so that publication may perhaps be expected within 

 another year. 



Birds of New York. The demand for this work still continues. 

 The supply of the quarto Memoir volumes is very greatly reduced, 

 and these books can not be much longer supplied. The first edition 

 of the portfolio of colored plates, 16,759 copies, has been exhausted, 

 and by agreement with the Comptroller a second edition has been 

 printed to the number of 10,000 copies, each copy of these being 

 held for sale under this agreement at the price of $1, transporta- 

 tion paid. 



