(A.) 

 REPORT OF THE CURATOR 



To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York : 



Gentlemen — 



I have the honor to present to yon the following communication 

 regarding the condition, of the State Cabinet of Natural History, 

 with a statement of the work done in the museum, together with a 

 list of the additions made to the collections of the several depart- 

 ments during the past year. 



The work of the year under the head of the several departments 

 may be stated in a general manner as follows : 



With the sanction and approval of the committee of your Board 

 having charge of the museum, the plaster casts constituting the 

 "Wadsworth Gallery" were removed to the third floor, and the 

 opening in that floor closed, thus securing additional space. By this 

 arrangement these casts were brought upon the same floor with the 

 Mastodon and Elephant remains from our State, the one occupying 

 the eastern and the other the western end of the same room. Among 

 the most conspicuous of the casts of the Wadsworth collection are 

 those of the Schistopleurum and Megatherium, both of which were 

 South American animals of the Pleistocene period, while the Masto- 

 don was a North American animal of essentially the same Geological 

 period. 



At a later date, with the consent of Mr. Wadsworth, the cast of 

 the skull and tusks of Elejphas ganesa, a fossil Asiatic species, and the 

 Dinotherium, a European species of the same age, were placed on 

 the central east side of the same room, and the skull, tusk and lower 

 jaw of the American Mastodon were removed to the western end of 

 the room with the Cohoes Mastodon skeleton. 



The committee in charge of the museum authorized the purchase 

 from Prof. Ward of a very fine specimen of the Irish Elk (Megaceras 



[Sen. No. 87.] 1 



