24 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



IV 



DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS 



During the year the bulletins of the Museum have issued as 

 rapidly as circumstances permitted. They take the following 

 numbers and titles : 



No. 174 Annual Report on the Mining and Quarry Industry for 



1913. By D. H. Newland. 



175 29th Report of the State Entomologist By E. P. Felt. 



176 Report of the State Botanist for 1913. By C. H. Peck. 



177 Director's Report for 1914. 



178 Annual Report on the Mining and Quarry Industry for 



1914. By D. H. Newland. 



179 Report of the State Botanist for 1914.- By H. D. House. 



180 30th Report of the State Entomologist. By E. P. Felt. 



It became obvious during the year that the number of scientific 

 reports of the Department is now so large that many important 

 special reports must of necessity be held back in order to facilitate 

 the printing of the annual reports of the department officials. To 

 correct this situation and release to the public many of these 

 important technical reports, arrangements are in progress to issue 

 the State Museum bulletin as a regular monthly periodical. 



Wild Flowers of New York. A reasonable preliminary pro- 

 vision was made by the Legislature of last year for an illustrated 

 monograph of the Wild Flower's of New York, and as soon as this 

 became available, field work was begun by operators acting under 

 the direction of the State Botanist in the preparation of autochrome 

 plates from living flowering plants. These operations have been 

 attended with success ; nearly one hundred such color negatives 

 with checking negatives in black and white were taken and the 

 color prints made from these negatives are for the most part true 

 in coloration and effect. The plants of the spring and early 

 summer were missed in the year's operations, but will be taken up 

 at once on the opening of the coming season. 



Birds of New York. The continued demand for this work has 

 reduced the edition to about one-seventh and as the demand does 

 not seem to lessen, the volumes can not be much longer supplied. 



