New York State Education Department 



Science Division, December 7, 1907 



Hon. Andrew S. Draper LL.D. 



Commissioner oj Education 

 Sir: I communicate herewith, for publication as a bulletin of 

 the State Museum, a timely treatise on the iron ores of the Adi- 

 rondack mountains prepared by David H. Newland, Assistant 

 State Geologist, to which is attached a special report on the deposits 

 at Mineville, the result of many years of expert investigation by 

 Prof. James F. Kemp. 



Very respectfully 



John M. Clarke 



State Geologist 

 State of New Yoik 

 Education Department 

 commissioner's room 



Approved for publication this ph day of December 1907 



Commissioner of Education 



