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packed in boxes properly marked, and are available at any time for 

 examination and experiment. Some of them have already been used 

 in testing the strength of the various kinds of stone. 



The Grawfordsville collection of Crinoidea and other fossils have 

 nearly all been unpacked, the specimens cleaned, numbered and dis- 

 tributed in drawers under their respective designations. 



Besides what I have enumerated, there has been much miscella- 

 neous work done among the collections which can scarcely form part 

 of the report, but which enters into the final result in the arrange- 

 ment and classification of the materials of the museum. 



The work of survey and investigation at Cohoes has been essen- 

 tially completed, and the large map of the river bed and adjacent 

 parts of the country, showing the ancient and modern pot-holes and 

 the position of the Mastodon, has been finished, together with other 

 necessary work pertaining to the same subject. 



The collection of minerals has been removed from the shelves, the 

 specimens cleaned of dust, the cases cleaned and the specimens 

 returned to their proper places. It has been impossible to give the 

 time to a proper rearrangement of this collection which it so much 

 needs. 



The Gould Collection of Shells, which was in part temporarily 

 arranged in drawers in the Curator's room in the early part of the 

 year, has been finally arranged by Mr. R. P. Whitfield, assisted by 

 S. B. Woolworth, Jr., and J. W. Hall, in the cases appropriated 

 therefor in the third story of the building. The space occupied 

 under glass is about 380 square feet, and a considerable number 

 still remain in drawers. The specimens as now arranged are very 

 much crowded, but we have no alternative at the present time. The 

 work of marking this collection with labels which can be read 

 through the glass, thus facilitating the means of study and compari- 

 son by those visiting the museum, will be progressed as rapidly as 

 the other duties of the museum will permit. 



I have heretofore called your attention to the large number of 

 shells from the Smithsonian Institution and other sources, still 

 remaining in drawers. We are unable at the present time, or even 

 with any prospective arrangement in the room allotted to this depart- 

 ment, to find space for arranging them beneath glass, or in any way 

 that they may be seen by visitors. 



The collection of Corals has been arranged in two small cases in 

 the window recesses of the third story ; and, though comparatively 



