Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter March ?, igo8, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under the 



act of Congress of July i6, 1894 



NO. 428 



ALBANY, N. Y 



AUGUST I, 1908 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Museum bulletin 121 



FOURTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 

 OF THE SCIENCE DIVISION 



INCLUDING "the 



6iST REPORT OF THE STATE MUSEUM, THE 27TH REPORT OF 

 THE STATE GEOLOGIST, AND THE REPORT OF . 

 THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR 1907 



PAGE 



Introduction 5 



I Condition of the scientific 



collections ... 6 



II Report on the geological 



survc}' 10 



Geological survey 10 



Seismological station 35 . 



Mineralogy 39 



Paleontology 40 



Field meeting of American 



ge-jlogists 64 



III Report of the State Botanist 74 



IV Report of the State Ento- 



mologi-st.-. 78 



V Rep jrt on the zoology sec- 



tion ....\. 83 



VI Report on the archeology 



section 85 



The wampums of the Iro- 

 quois Confederacy 85 



Field work in archeology, 



1907 ; 87 



VII A State Historical Museum in 



VIII Publications... 115 



IX Staff.... 121 



X Accessions 123 



XI Appendix: Localities, of 



American Paleozdic 

 fossils 140 



The Beginnings of Depende-nt 



Life. JoiiNT M. Clarke 146 



Index /.. 197 



IMiQ^r JaP-i5.>j 



ALBANY 



u.siviiRsrrv of the state of new york 



1908 



