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years since published in the bulletins of the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences accounts of supposed additional species occurring in 

 these rocks at Buffalo. With the exception of the latter practically 

 all accounts of these fossils in this State have been published in the 

 reports of this institution; some notices in the Palaeontology of Nezv 

 York, volume 7; Mr Clifton J. Sarle described the remarkably 

 interesting species from the Salina beds of Pitts ford m Museum 

 bulletin 69 and the writer the extraordinary fauna from the Otis- 

 ville shales in bulletin 107. The collections of the museum 

 representing these genera : Eurypterus, Pterygotus, Eusarcus, Hugh- 

 milleria, Stylonurus etc. are very extensive. All of the material 

 described by Mr Sarle and the writer is here and recent additions 

 to the specimens from these localities run up into hundreds of 

 examples. Large collections have also been made by us in recent 

 years from the localities in Herkimer county. The museum of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences is the possessor of most com- 

 manding collections of eurypteroids from the Bertie waterlimes in 

 that city, which have been greatly enlarged of late by the enthusiastic 

 interest of Mr Lewis J. Bennett, president of the Buffalo Cement 

 Co. from whose quarries nearly all the specimens of these Bertie 

 waterlime crustaceans scattered through the museums of the world, 

 have come. In later years Mr Bennett has provided that all speci- 

 mens taken from his c[uarries go into the museum of the Buffalo 

 Society with the result that these collections have become fairly 

 stupendous and vastly illuminating. The courtesy of a formal vote 

 of the trustees of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences has 

 enabled me to feel confident that this fine material will be subject 

 to my use. It is my hope soon to reach a time when these investi- 

 gations may be taken up for uninterrupted pursuit. Meanwhile 

 progress is made as occasion affords. 



Mastodons. In my report for 1903 I gave a summary of 

 records of discoveries of mastodon remains in this State since the 

 date of the first finding of the bones of the Mastodon a m eri- 

 ca nus a short distance below Albany in 1705. The list there 

 given afforded evidence of about 60 distinct occurrences of these 

 skeletons. Last year I supplemented this record with four items. 

 During the past season another discovery has been made. A brief 

 notice of this follows and thereafter some notes of interest on 

 other remains. 



1907. Perkinsville, Steuben co. This skeleton was found in 

 August last by John Morsch on his farm near the west end of 



