10 Thirty-fifth Annual Keport of the 



State, shows the increasing interest in the subjects, and the importance 

 of these small representative collections, and their value in the estima- 

 tion of the teachers of science. 



With the present organization of the Museum staff this work of 

 selecting, arranging and labeling is done under many disadvantages 

 and bears very heavily upon the Curator and assistants. 



Additions to the Arranged Collections. 



A collection of the casts of bones of the Odontornithes, presented 

 by Prof. 0. C. Marsh (of which a list is appended), have been ar- 

 ranged in a case upon the second floor of the Museum. 



The specimens donated by the Rev. W. H. Dean, and those pur- 

 chased of Charles H. Haskell, from the Utica State, have been care- 

 fully studied and a series placed in the table cases of the palaeonto- 

 logical series upon the first floor of the Museum. This series repre- 

 sents the development of Triarthrus Bechi. A more recent pur- 

 chase made from Mr. Haskell will enable us to complete the collec- 

 tion in some other groups, and notably in the Graptolitidse and Mol- 

 lusca — the whole forming a very valuable and complete represen- 

 tation of the fauna of this epoch. 



Two remarkable specimens of Endoceras from the Trenton lime- 

 stone from former collections have been added to the arranged collec- 

 tions of the Museum. 



About one hundred and fifty specimens of the fossils of the Black 

 * River limestone ; the gasteropoda of the corniferous limestone, and 

 some large and fine specimens of Favositers Helderlergim have been 

 selected for the arranged collections and packed in boxes properly 

 marked, awaiting cases for their arrangement in the Museum. About 

 thirty-five large slabs of the corniferous limestone with Eridophyllum, 

 Heliophyllum, Zaphrentis, etc., have been temporarily arranged on 

 shelves in the entrance hall of the Museum. 



The statements above do not, however, by any means express the 

 real amount of work done in the geological department, which in 

 amount of interesting and valuable material for scientific study far 

 exceeds all the other collections of the Museum. For its proper study, 

 disposition and arrangement, more assistance is absolutely necessary, 

 and if we are required to provide duplicate collections for the schools 

 and colleges, it cannot be done with the present force of the Museum, 

 unless we relinquish all original investigation. 



In conclusion I may say, that were there appropriate space and 

 proper cases for the placing of collections I am prepared to add to the 

 palaeontological department a much greater amount of material than 

 has been added to the arranged collections during the past fifteen years. 



Museum Publications. 



As I stated in the last report, nothing has yet been done to for- 

 ward the publication of the Museum reports 32, 33 and 34, which 

 now remain in the hands of the State printer. These reports with 

 their special papers form the medium of communication between the 

 Museum and the scientific public, and are the only means of present- 

 ing to the world evidence of work done in the several departments of 

 science. Already we have discovered that, of the new species of fungi, 



