﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR. 
  

  

  Albany, 
  January 
  9, 
  1877. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Honorable 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  

   the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  : 
  

  

  Gentlemen. 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  present 
  herewith 
  the 
  

   Annual 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  

   embracing 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  collections 
  in 
  

   the 
  several 
  departments, 
  the 
  additions 
  made 
  thereto, 
  and 
  the 
  

   work 
  done 
  in 
  the 
  institution 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year, 
  together 
  

   with 
  special 
  communications. 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  able 
  to 
  report 
  that 
  the 
  collections 
  are 
  in 
  good 
  order 
  and 
  

   condition, 
  and 
  much 
  progress 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  better 
  

   arrangements 
  of 
  some 
  departments, 
  as 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  state- 
  

   ments 
  following. 
  But 
  I 
  am 
  constrained 
  to 
  repeat, 
  what 
  I 
  have 
  

   so 
  often 
  said 
  before, 
  that 
  a 
  want 
  of 
  space 
  for 
  a 
  proper 
  arrange- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  the 
  increasing 
  material 
  in 
  nearly 
  every 
  department 
  

   becomes 
  more 
  and 
  more 
  embarrassing. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  liberality 
  always 
  characterizing 
  the 
  Legislature 
  of 
  

   our 
  State, 
  it 
  last 
  year 
  made 
  the 
  necessary 
  appropriation 
  to 
  

   secure 
  the 
  purchase 
  of 
  the 
  rhinoceros 
  and 
  giraffe 
  referred 
  

   to 
  in 
  my 
  preceding 
  report, 
  and 
  to 
  provide 
  for 
  the 
  mounting 
  

   of 
  the 
  skin 
  and 
  skeleton 
  of 
  the 
  former, 
  and 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  

   latter. 
  The 
  two 
  mounted 
  skins 
  have 
  already 
  been 
  placed 
  in 
  

   the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  In 
  reference 
  to 
  my 
  special 
  communication 
  of 
  last 
  year, 
  

   the 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  board 
  and 
  the 
  committee 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  

   Museum, 
  have 
  authorized 
  a 
  change 
  in 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  

   material 
  upon 
  the 
  upper 
  floor 
  of 
  the 
  Museum, 
  by 
  which 
  the 
  

   large 
  case, 
  formerly 
  devoted 
  to 
  ethnological 
  and 
  historical 
  col- 
  

   lections, 
  has 
  been 
  vacated 
  of 
  these 
  collections, 
  and 
  adapted 
  for 
  

   the 
  reception 
  of 
  the 
  mounted 
  skins 
  of 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  walrus, 
  

   the 
  rhinoceros 
  and 
  giraffe, 
  the 
  skeleton 
  of 
  the 
  rhinoceros 
  and 
  

   other 
  objects. 
  The 
  enclosing 
  of 
  an 
  area 
  in 
  the 
  center 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  