State Museum of Natural History. 



Museum Publications. 



Museum edition of the Twenty-eighth Report on the State Museum 

 of Natural History. 



The Thirtieth Report, containing 256 pages and four plates. [Copies 

 received at the museum April 27th, 1879.] 



The Thirty-first Report, containing 78 pages. [Copies received at 

 the museum September 27th, 1879.] 



The following papers by those engaged in the museum have appeared 

 in other publications: 



United States species of Lycoperdon. By C. H. Peck. 



Transactions of the Albany Institute, Vol. IX, pp. 



Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Calciferous formation. 

 By C. D. Walcott. Advance of the 32d Report on the State Museum 

 of Natural History. Jan. 3d, 1879. 4 pp. 



Utica slate, etc. Fossils of the Utica slate and metamorphoses of 

 Triarthrus Becki. By C. D. Walcott. Transactions of the Albany 

 Institute, Vol. X, 1879. Also, as a pamphlet, 38 pp. and two plates. 



Description of a new species of Anisota. By J. A. Lintner. Cana- 

 dian Entomologist, Vol. XI, -pp. 10-12. 



The clover-seed Fly, a new insect pest. By J. A. Lintner. Ibid., 

 Vol. XI, pp. 44, 45. 



On Cecidomyia leguminicola, n. sp. By J. A. Lintner. Ibid., Vol. 

 XI, pp. 121-124. 



Annual address of the President of the Entomological Club of the 

 American Association for the Advancement, of Science. [J. A. Lint- 

 ner.] 



Ibid., Vol. XI, pp. 163-175. 



Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Niagara formation, 

 at Waldron, Indiana. By James Hall. 



Transactions of the Albany Institute, Vol. X, pp. 57. 



Also, as a pamphlet, 20 pp. 



The Work of the Museum. 



Botany. — The accompanying report of the botanist, Mr. C. H. 

 Peck, will indicate the work done by himself, the additions to the her- 

 barium, and the general condition of the department. 



Zoology. — Owing to the discontinuance for the past few years of 

 special appropriations for increase in the Zoological department, no 

 large additions have recently been made. A few specimens of birds 

 have been mounted and placed in the cases. As a source of interest 

 to visitors, and of instruction to students, and to the agriculturists 

 and horticulturists of the State, two collections of insects have been 

 commenced during the past year. A Synoptical Collection designed 

 to illustrate the classification of the insect world, and to readily show 

 to the student its systematic divisions into orders, families, genera and 

 species. Five cases have been arranged and are ready.* The completed 



* For list of species, see art. 3 of this report. 



