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III. By Collection. 

 By the Botanist. 

 Two linndred aiid twenty-three species of Plants new to the State. 



III. TO THE GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAJ. 

 DEPARTMENT. 



I. By Donation. 

 From H. Tudor Brownell. 

 Calcareous Spar with copper pyrites: Sheffield, Mass. 



From Lewis Deeyer, Albany, K. Y. 

 A three quarter inch cube of iron pyrites. 



From D. M. Woodward, North Troy, N. Y. 

 Foliated Talc, from North Troy, N. Y. 



From Col. Richard J. Dodge, Fort Lyon, Colorado. 

 Petrified Wood and Yesicular Lava from the Rocky Mountains. 



From S. W. Clark, Willsborough, N. Y. 

 A dressed block of Trenton Limestone (9 x 9 x 13), from quarries 

 furnishing the foundation stone for the New Capitol : Wills- 

 borough, Essex county, N. Y. (No. 96.) Received in 1870. 



From Orson Richards and D. Lynch, Minerva, N. Y. 

 A polished Shaft of Serpentine Marble, two feet in height, 7i inches 

 square at base, and 6 inches square at apex : Minerva, Essex 

 county, N. Y. (No. 116.) 



From Stanton Cady, Albany, N. Y. 

 A block (No. 118) of Red Granite ; Sing Sing, N. Y. 



From John M. Scribner, Middleburgh, N. Y. 

 A block (No. 119) of fine-grained Sandstone (20 x 10 x 15), from flag- 

 stone quarry, near Middleburgh. 



From D. Parmeter. 

 A block (No. 120) of Potsdam Sandstone (16 x 12 x 12 inches), with 

 four sides dressed, and two showinj? rock fracture. 



