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3. Indian Relic found in excavating Second-street, Albany, April 1856, 



five feet below the surface. 



4. Wood from Hall op Independence, Philadelphia, erected in 



1714 : this piece taken out during repairs in 1855. 



Presented by R. W. Davis, Philadelphia. 



5. Wood from the Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn., which fell Aug. 



21, 1856. Presented by E. A. Selkirk, Albany. 



6. Piece of a Bomb Shell, found at Fort William Henry, about 



three feet below the surface, Nov. 1, 1856. 



Presented by A. Melius, Albany. 



7. A Gun, presented by Gen. Philip Schuyler to John Henry 



Clock, grandfather to Christopher Clock of St. Johnsville, 

 Montgomery county, N.Y., and has remained one hundred years in 

 the Clock family. Its length is 7 feet 5^ inches, and its weight 

 16-2 lbs. The inscription P. D. S. 1728, is supposed to be the initials 

 of the father of Gen. Schuyler, and the date the time he received it. 

 Presented by Christopher Clock to Leander Fox, who presents 

 it to the State of New- York for the Historical Collections, as a relic 

 of olden times. March 31, 1856. 



8. Two LARGE SPECIMENS OF SULPHURET OF MERCURY, from the 



New Almedan Mine, California. 



Presented by R. H. Bacon, San Francisco. 



The Regents are indebted to the following gentlemen for their 

 assistance in procuring the remains of a fossil elephant, exhumed 

 near Chittenango, in excavating the canal : 



To James Stewart, Esq., of Amsterdam, for a tusk, tooth, vertebras, 

 ribs, and bones of the foot. 



To H. C. Merrick, Esq., Civil Engineer of Cortland, for a tusk and 



ribs. 

 To Prof. A. K. Eaton, of Clinton, for ribs, etc. 

 To Charles Van Eppes, Esq., of Sullivan, for a tooth. 

 To James Coleman, of Sullivan, for a tooth and ribs. 

 To Mr. Robert Wilson, of Chittenango, for a part of the underjaw. 



