6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



IV Report of the State Entomologist 



V Report on the Zoology section 



VI Report on the Archeology section 



A' II Publications of the year 



VIII Staff of the Science Division and State Museum 



IX Accessions to the collections 



X Appendixes (to be continued in subsequent volumes). All 

 the scientific publications of the year 



CONDITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS 



During the year past the preparations for moving the collections 

 into the Education Building have taken precedence over most other 

 activities of the staff' of the Museum. The collection rooms in 

 Geological Hall have been closed to the public and at the present 

 time the scientific materials are for the most part ready for removal. 

 It became necessary early in the year to transfer all the stored 

 material and publications of the Museum from the McCredie malt- 

 house which has been in use many years as a storehouse, to their 

 I)resent quarters, the old Taylor brewery, in a distant part of the 

 city, and to the latter place additions to the collections are at present 

 being removed as they come in. In the installation of the collections 

 in the Education Building all this material will come into requisition. 

 There still remains in other buildings very much valuable material 

 as indicated in my previous reports (see report for 1909-10). 



The fire of March 29, 191 1, which destroyed the west end of the 

 Capitol and the State Library, involved the State Museum in very 

 serious loss. On the landing at the head of the western stairway 

 and along the corridors leading thereto the archeological collections 

 were arranged. These were the historic Indian collections of cos- 

 tumes and implements which had been brought together during the 

 existence of the institution. They contained materials gathered by 

 Schoolcraft, Lewis 1 1. Morgan and others in the early days when 

 the Regents of the l^nivcrsity gave special encouragement to the 

 study of aboriginal life and records ; and many later collections 

 obtained by purchase or gift. As a whole the exhibit there arranged 

 was the most complete assemblage of Iroquois materials in exist- 

 ence and because of its great scientific value, it had been removed 

 from Geological Hall to the Capitol for greater safety. It is 

 difficult to estimate the money value in this loss. I have placed it 

 somewhat conventionally at $20,000 which is an approximation to 

 the expenditure that would be necessary to replace the collections, 



