New York State Museum Bulletin 



Entered as second-class matter November 27, 1915, at the Post OflSce at Albany, New York, 

 under the act of August 24, 1912 



Published monthly by The University of the State of New York 



No. 187 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



July i, 1916 



The University of the State of New Yoi 

 New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



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TWELFTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 6] 

 STATE MUSEUM AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 



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INCLUDING THE SIXTY-NINTH REPORT OF THE STATE 



MUSEUM, THE THIRTY-FIFTH REPORT OF THE 



STATE GEOLOGIST AND THE REPORT OF THE 



STATE PALEONTOLOGIST FOR 1915 



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Introduction 7 



I Legal Status and scope of the 

 State Museum 9 



II Present condition of the Science 

 Museum 10 



III Condition of the scientific res- 

 ervations belonging to the Mu^ 

 seum 19 



IV Department publications 24 



V Considerations for future 

 growth of the Museum 26 



VI Report on the geological sur- 

 vey 27 



VII Report of the State Botanist 40 



VIII Report of the State Ento- 

 mologist 42 



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IX Report of the Zoology division 50 



X Report of the Archeologist .... 52 



XI Staff of the Department of 

 Science 60 



XII Accessions to the collections 62 



XIII Scientific papers 79 



Landslides in Unconsolidated 



Sediments. D. H. Newland . . 79 



Albany Molding Sand. D. H. 

 Newland 107 



On the Genus Urasterella with De- 

 scription of a New Species. 

 G. H. Hudson 117 



Ancient Water Levels of the 

 Crown Point Embayment. 

 E. E. Barker 165 



Index 191 



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ALBANY 



THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 

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