﻿REPORT. 
  

  

  TO 
  THE 
  LEGISLATUEE 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  OF 
  NEW-YORK. 
  

  

  The 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  

  

  Respectfully 
  Report 
  : 
  

  

  That 
  the 
  various 
  Departments 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  have 
  been 
  

   greatly 
  enlarged 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  that 
  has 
  just 
  expired. 
  It 
  was 
  

   stated 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  report 
  that 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  specimens 
  

   were 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  injured 
  by 
  the 
  moth. 
  A 
  further 
  examination 
  

   showed 
  the 
  necessity 
  of 
  destroying 
  several, 
  so 
  as, 
  if 
  possible, 
  

   completely 
  to 
  check 
  the 
  ravages 
  of 
  this 
  destructive 
  insect. 
  Mr. 
  

   Hurst, 
  the 
  taxidermist, 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  directed 
  to 
  replace 
  

   such 
  as 
  were 
  thus 
  lost 
  to 
  the 
  collection, 
  and 
  also 
  to 
  supply 
  other 
  

   deficiencies 
  that 
  were 
  still 
  existing. 
  The 
  purchases 
  made 
  on 
  

   this 
  account 
  will 
  be 
  noticed 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  articles 
  added. 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  was 
  thus 
  directed, 
  they 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  a 
  communication 
  from 
  the 
  parents 
  and 
  uncle 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  

   Mr. 
  De 
  Rham, 
  (the 
  donation 
  of 
  whose 
  minerals, 
  fossils 
  and 
  shells 
  

   are 
  noticed 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  report,) 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  tendered 
  for 
  the 
  

   acceptance 
  of 
  the 
  Regents, 
  and 
  through 
  them, 
  for 
  the 
  State, 
  the 
  

   valuable 
  and 
  splendid 
  collection 
  of 
  birds 
  and 
  other 
  animals 
  

   made 
  by 
  this 
  gentleman 
  during 
  his 
  life 
  time. 
  This 
  memorial 
  of 
  

   his 
  ardor 
  and 
  research 
  in 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  natural 
  history, 
  accumu- 
  

   lated 
  at 
  an 
  expense 
  of 
  many 
  thousand 
  dollars, 
  and 
  embracing 
  

   some 
  of 
  the 
  rarest 
  and 
  most 
  valuable 
  specimens, 
  had 
  remained 
  

   secluded 
  since 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  his 
  lamented 
  decease. 
  It 
  was 
  now 
  

   only 
  yielded 
  that 
  it 
  might 
  receive 
  a 
  permanent 
  abiding 
  place 
  in 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  