8 Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the 



• 

 Charles E. Beecher, assistant in geology and palaeontology. 



Also they appointed for special departments in the museum the 

 following, viz.: 



J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist. 



Charles H. Peck, State Botanist. 



The trustees in further pursuance of this section have planned and 

 arranged to carry out its purposes by instituting extensive exchanges 

 and distributions of their duplicate specimens among the institutions 

 of learning under the Board of Regents. This, however, can only be 

 fully carried out when the duplicates of the collections are brought to- 

 gether in the new museum building. Under the resolution of the 

 Legislature of 1881, collections of named and labeled specimens have 

 been sent on application to the following academies : 



1. Perry Union School, Perry, Wyoming county. 



2. Baldwinsville Academy, Baldwinsville, Onondaga county. 



3. Seymour Smith Academy, Pine Plains, Dutchess county. 



4. Waterville Union School, Waterville, Oneida county. 



5. Dreanan Literary Institute, Franklin, Delaware county. 



6. Phelps Union and Classical School, Phelps, Ontario county. 



7. Little Falls Union School, Little Falls, Herkimer county. 



8. Port Byron Free School and Academy, Port Byron, Cayuga county. 



9. Glens Falls Academy, Glens Falls, Warren county. 



10. Weedsport Union School, Weedsport, Cayuga county. 



11. Dryden Union School, Dryden, Tompkins county. 



12. Olean Free School and Academy, Olean, Cattaraugus county. 



13. Rutgers College, ~New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



14. Warsaw Union School, Warsaw, Wyoming county. 



The law provides that the trustees of the museum shall hereafter be 

 authorized to print, under their own direction, the scientific papers 

 prepared by the staff of the museum. As the increased apj^ropriation 

 called for by these enlarged duties has not yet become available, the 

 trustees have been unable to enter upon the work of printing scientific 

 papers. This they expect to undertake during the coming year, and 

 they look forward with satisfaction to the prospect of issuing from the 

 museum, from time to time, the important and valuable results of 

 their investigations. 



By the third section of the law the trustees are charged with the 

 work of supervising the completion of the Palaeontology. It is pro- 

 vided that one volume of the work shall be issued each year during 

 five years, and that the completed work shall consist of those five vol- 

 umes.' The trustees, in preparing to execute this part of the law, 

 found existing contracts for the printing and engraving required for 



