216 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Walter S. Groesbeck, cleric and accouTitantj Cornelius Van Brunts 

 honorary floral photographer. 



Baleohotany. The collection of 8000 specimens is mainly the 

 property of Columbia university. It was begun by the late Prof. 

 J. S. Newberry and in addition to the exhibition series, contains 

 specimens from almost every section of the world and from every 

 geologic horizon. It is specially rich in North American forms. 

 The Triassic Cretaceous and Tertiary plants are represented by 

 specimens collected by the Hayden exploring expedition, Mis- 

 souri and Yellowstone rivers 1859-60; the McComb and Tves 

 explorations of the Grrand, Green and Colorado rivers 1859-61,. 

 and by an extensive suite of specimens from the clay beds of 

 New Jersey, on which Dr Newberry based his Flora of the Amhoy 

 clays. An exceedingly interesting local series is shown which 

 was collected by Dr Arthur Hollick on Long Island, Block Island 

 and Marthas Vineyard. The fossil plants are arranged prim- 

 arily on the sequence of the geologic time divisions and are de- 

 signed to show the succession of plant life on the earth. 



Economic hotany. On the first floor of the building are 24 cases 

 of drugs in two series, crude drugs and refined drugs. The crude 

 drugs are arranged morphologically, as from roots, stems, bark, 

 flowers etc. to the whole plant. Eefined drugs are first divided 

 into products, and these arranged in their natural families. In 

 this section is shown a collection of local poisonous plants; 20 

 eases of woods and wood products; 12 cases of fibers, 9 cases con- 

 taining crude fibers and their products, 2 cases of wood paper 

 and straw paper; one case of cork; 12 cases of foods and food 

 plants divided into three groups; 1 case of dry seeds and fruits,^ 

 2 cases of fleshy seeds and fruits, 3 cases of herbs or parfs of 

 herbs or woody plants other than seeds or fruit. 



A collection of miscellaneous exhibits fills 20 cases as follows: 

 1 of turpentine and rosin; 3 of gums and resins; 2 of fodder 

 plants; 1 of crude and refined sugars; 1 of tobacco; 2 of volatile 

 oils, 1 of fixed oils; 1 of starches; 1 of chocolate; 1 of barley 

 malt, beer and ale; 1 of grape juice and wines; 1 of cinnamon; 1 



