20 Twenty- SIXTH Report on the State Museum. 



From D. Minthorn, "Watertown, N. Y. 

 Granites from quarries at Gouverneur, N. Y. 



From Amasa J. Paekee, Jr. Albany, N. Y. 

 Two blocks of cannel coal from Pennsylvania, containing plant 

 mains. 



From Geo. R. Howell, N. Y. State Library. 



Crystallized Pig-iron, from the Franklinite Iron Ore, Franklin fur- 

 nace, Sussex county, N. J. 



From Heney A. Homes, N. Y. State Library. 

 Feldspar, Shinnecock Hills, Suffolk county, N. Y. ; Magnetite, 



locality ? Red Oxide of Zinc; a concretion of singular form, 



Arkansas; Spirifera, from Lower Carboniferous limestone ; a frag- 

 ment of Star-fish, from the Upper Silurian ; Protaster Miltonii, 

 Herefordshire, England. 



From K M. Case, Albany, IST. Y. 

 Hematitic Iron Ore, from the Blair Mines, near ISTewton, IS". J. 



From the Engineees or the E. R. Beidge. 

 Surface Slate, from Ela's quarry, Lisbon, Grafton Co., 1^. H. 

 G;neissoid Granite ; Bed-rock from the Pier, New York side of the 



East River bridge ; blasted eighty-two feet below high water. 



Plane of stratification in situ, about 70°. 



From Waltee Peimmee, Glenville, IST. Y. 

 A stalagmitic aggregation of particles from the sawing of steel rails 

 at the Bessemer Works, Troy, N. Y. 



II. By Purchase. 

 Sixty-nine specimens, in bottles, of rock formation and the accom- 

 panying oil, obtained at stated depths from the surface to the bot- 

 tom (923 feet) of the Gardner well. No. 3, at Shamburg, Penn. 

 (See record accompanying this report.) 



lY. TO THE LIBRARY. 



I. By Donation. 



From the Society. 



Sitzungs-Berichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in 



Dresden. Nos. 7-12. July-December, 1871. 



