Report of the State Geologist. 377 



lithographed plates, for want of room, the species being repre- 

 sented by fewer figures than would have been desirable, could the 

 space have been allowed. All these drawings could be arranged 

 on plates and published in the annual reports; or they can be 

 arranged on plates corresponding with those of the volumes and 

 published as a supplement or arranged as part of a museum 

 bulletin to be published with a classification of the Bryozoa. 



The best and most satisfactory disposition of this material would 

 be the publication of a supplemental volume of about twenty plates 

 with text of 160 pages to include a synopsis and classification of 

 the genera with the proper illustrations, together with descriptions 

 of the new species. This would serve to give a completeness to the 

 work which it now lacks, and which, from the great amount of new 

 material that would be presented in the volume, we should feel 

 it a duty to publish. 



In order t6 have this material more immediately available for 

 use, should it be required for publication, I propose to arrange 

 these drawings upon cards in the form of the plates of the volume 

 and to have the necessary drawings made for their completion; to 

 write out the descriptions, and explanations of plates and to leave 

 all this, together with the specimens properly labeled and arranged 

 in a series of drawers, so that the entire material will be available 

 for use. 



The Corals and Bryozoa of the Lower Helderberg Group and 

 the Bryozoa of the Upper Helderberg Group which have been 

 used in the descriptions and illustrations of the volume have been 

 arranged in drawers in the rooms of the upper story of the State 

 Hall. All the duplicate collections of specimens have likewise 

 been similarly arranged preparatory to labeling the whole (a work 

 already begun). To complete the labeling will require several 

 months of careful labor by Mr. Simpson the assistant and draughts- 

 man in this department. At the end of February, 1888, Mr. 

 Simpson's services were discontinued, and the material mentioned 

 above, as practically prepared for publication, still remains in the 

 same condition as when this report was written, with a large 

 number of specimens remaining unlabelled and consequently of 

 little value to science or to the Museum. 



In this connection I beg leave again to urge upon the committee 

 of the State Museum the great importance of having selected from 

 the very large collection of fossil corals a series of specimens for 

 48 



