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II. 



Statement of the Distribution of Fossils and Minerals from 

 the State Museum of Natural History and from the Pri- 

 vate Collection of James Hall, from 1866 to 1873. 



Specimens of Fossils sent to different institutions of science or learn- 

 ing, within the State of New York, from 1866 to 1880, by assent or 

 direction of the Secretary of the Board of Regents, or on application 

 from some member of the Committee on the State Museum. 



1866. Buffalo Natural History Society, through Hon. George W. 



Clinton. 



•Niagara Group, (Waldron) 18 species. 



•Tertiary, Alabama , 41 u 



59 « 



The number of examples not noted, but there were at least an aver- 

 age of three to each species, or 177 specimens. 



1868. A collection furnished to Dr. S. B. Woolworth, for donation to 

 some academy, name not recorded, December, 1868. 



•Niagara group (N. Y. and Ind.) 13 species. 32 specimens. 



•Medina sandstone (N. Y.) 3 " 3 



•Lower Helderberg (N. Y.) 16 " 35 + 



Oriskany (N . Y.) 1 " 2 



Upper Helderberg (N. Y.) 8 " 14 



Hamilton group (N. Y.) 29 " 57 



70 * 143 



1869. The Wood Library of Canandaigua. 



•Potsdam sandstone 4 species. 



•Hudson river group (Ohio) 13 



•Niagara (N. Y. and Ind.) 18 



•Lower Helderberg (N. Y. ) 15 



Upper Helderberg (N. Y. ) 5 



Hamilton group (N. Y.) 33 



88 



Number of specimens not recorded. 



* Those marked with an asterisk were from Mr. Hall's private collection. 



