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University ofthe State of New York Bulletin 



Application for entry as second-class matter at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., pending 



. Published .'fortnightly 





ALBANY, N. Y. 



March i, 191 3 



New York State Museum 



John ~M. Clarke, Director 

 Museum Bulletin 164 



• NINTH REPORT OF THE DIREC 

 " ' - THE SCIENCE DIVISIO 



,■ : ■ ./'■": r ■ : /. , ' / ■'■■' ■- ■-..'■, r'\ 



INCLUDING THE 



66^th REPORT OF THE STA^E MUSEUM, THE 32d REPO 

 THE STATE GEOLOGIST, AND THE REPORT OP THE 

 STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR 19 12 



PAGE 



Introduction 



I The State Museum law... . 6 

 The Statutory Concep- 

 tion of a "State Mu- 

 seum" 6 



The State Museum idea, 

 and its place in the pol- 

 ity of the State. . . < . . j 

 II The educational function 

 of the State' Museum 

 of Science. 9 



III Condition of the scientific - 



collections . . . . . . . . . . ; 15 



IV Report ofi" the geological." 



survey. . : 16 



Areal geology . . 16 



Surficial geology". .:...*.. 21: 



Industrial geology 25 



Seismologic station 28 



Paleontology ..,.= ....... 30 



V Report of the State Botan- . ... 



ist ::,...:.%^ 



VI Report of the State Ento- ■ • 

 mologist ../. . V. 35 



VII Report of the Zoologist 43 



Monograph of the New 

 Yorik -Mollusca .... . . ; 44 



VIII Report of the Archeologist 45 

 Archeological survey. ... 45 

 The O. W. Auringer col- 

 lection '. ....... 47 



Archeological collections 54 

 Folklore. , ..., ...... , . . , , . 56 



Public interest ...... .' . . - 57 



. IX Publications 57 



X - Staff of the Science Divi- 



sdpn and State Museum 62 



XI Accessions 63 



The Mount Morris Meteorite. 



H. P. Whitlock 78 



Early Paleozoic Physiography of 

 the Southern Adirondacks. 



W. J. Miller 80 



The Garnet Deposits of Warren 

 County, • Ne\y. York.. W.. J. 

 Miller . . . . . . . . . ........ .\ . . 95 



The Use of the Stereogram in Paleo- 

 biology. G. H. Hudson. ..... 103 



The Origin of the Gulf of St Law- 

 rence. J. M. Clarke. :'.::■'. ; . . '132 

 A Notable Trilobite from the 



Perce Rock. J.M.Clarke... 138 

 Illustrations of the Devonic Fos- 

 sils of Sou1j.hern Brazil and the 

 Falkland Islands. J.M.Clarke 140 

 Index 211 



M29r-Jei3-2000 



ALBANY 



UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 

 1913 



