14 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



1 An extensive series of fossil Eurypterida from a new horizon 

 in the Salina or Vernon shales at Pittsford, affording fine specimens 

 of species already described and of some heretofore unknown. 



2 A special series of natural abrasive materials brought together 

 in the field work of Mr Colony, whose report on this subject has 

 now been printed. 



3 An extensive collection of the fossils of the Stafford limestone 

 (Middle Devonian) from LeRoy and Stafford. 



The proposed statue of Prof. Joseph Henry. The matter of the 

 creation of a statue of this eminent American, whose earliest experi- 

 ments on electrical transmission were made in the Albany Academy, 

 became in a proper sense one of the concerns of the State Museum 

 as a result of a duly organized committee for this purpose, of which 

 the President of the University was a member and the Director 

 of the Musetun secretary and treasurer. At a public meeting of 

 the National Academy of Sciences held in New York in the autiimn 

 of 191 5, Prof. Michael I. Pupin, the distinguished electro-mechanician, 

 spoke in such pleasing eulogy of Joseph Henry and his pioneer work 

 in the field of electrics that, at the suggestion of the writer, who 

 was present at the address, he was invited by the President of the 

 University to come to Albany and, the occasion of his visit being 

 fixed. Professor Pupin was tendered a dinner by Regent Charles B. 

 Alexander, chairman- of the Museum committee. The dinner was 

 held at the Ten-Eyck Hotel May 24, 19 16, with the following guests: 



Charles B. Alexander, Regent of the University 



Martin H. Glynn, Former Governor of New York 



Pliny T. Sexton, Chancellor of the University 



Dr Albert Vander Veer, Vice Chancellor of the University 



John H. Finley, President of the University 



John J. Carty, President, National Institute Electrical Engineers 



Chester S. Lord, Regent of the University 



Francis M. Carpenter, Regent of the University 



Abram I. Elkus, Regent of the University 



Adelbert Moot, Regent of the University 



Walter G. Kellogg, Regent of the University 



William Berri, Regent of the University 



James Byrne, Regent of the University 



Henry P. Watrren, Headmaster, Albany Academy 



J. Townsend Lansing, President, Albany Institute 



John M. Clarke, Director, State Museum 



At the close of the dinner, the writer acting as _,toastmaster, brief 

 addresses were made by Governor Glynn, Doctor Finley, and Doctor 



