Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post OfiSce at Albany, R. Y., under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 516 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



April i, 1912 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Museum Bulletin 158 



EIGHTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF 

 THE SCIENCE DIVISION 



INCLUDING THE 



65th REPORT OF THE STATE MUSEUM, THE 31st REPORT OF 



THE STATE GEOLOGIST, AND THE REPORT OF THE 



STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR 191 1 



Introduction 5 



I Condition of the scientific 



collections 6 



II Report on the geological 



survey 8 



Some practical features 

 of New York geology. 8 



Areal geology 15 



Surficial geology 29 



Industrial geology 35 



Seismologic station 39 



Mineralogy 41 



Paleontology 43 



III Report of the State Botan- 



ist 50 



IV Report of the State Ento- 



mologist 52 



V Report of the Zoologist. . . 59 

 VI Report on the archeology 



section 61 



List of archeological speci- 

 mens destroyed in the 

 capitol fire, March 29, 

 1911 79 



VII Publications 84 



VIII Staff 88 



IX Accessions 90 



Notes on the Geology of the Gulf 

 of St Lawrence. J. M. Clarke i i i 



Notes on Devonic Fishes from 

 Scaumenac. L. Hussakof. ... 127 



Notes on a Specimen of Plecto- 

 ceras jason (Billings). Rudolf 

 Ruedemann 141 



On the Genesis of the Pyrite De- 

 posits of St Lawrence County. 

 C. H. Smyth, Jr 143 



Recent Mineral Occurrences in 

 New York City and Vicinity. 

 H. P. Whitlock 183 



The Micmac Tercentenary. John 

 M. Clarke 1 89 



The Manhattan Indians. Alan- 

 son Skinner 199 



Index 213 



