CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX. 



Page, 



(A.) Report of the Curator, 1 



(B.) Additions to the cabinet during the year, , 9 



1. By donation, , 9 



2. By purchase, 14 



3. By collections made by the Curator, 16 



(C.) Partial list of shells found near Troy, 1ST. Y., by Truman 



H. Aldrich, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ... 17 



(D.) Report of the Botanist, 25 



(E.) Meteorological report for the year 1868, by Clinton L. 



Merriam, Leyden, K Y., 107 



(F.) Early observations' upon magnetic variations, by Franklin 



B. Hough, of Lowville, K Y., 109 



