﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  CURATOR. 
  9 
  

  

  and 
  a 
  half 
  feet, 
  this 
  could 
  only 
  have 
  been 
  attained 
  by 
  an 
  unnatural 
  

   arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  parts. 
  

  

  The 
  skeleton 
  of 
  the 
  Cohoes 
  mastodon 
  is 
  now 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   interesting 
  and 
  attractive 
  features 
  of 
  the 
  museum, 
  and 
  since 
  its 
  

   opening 
  to 
  the 
  public 
  on 
  the 
  23d 
  of 
  December, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  visited 
  

   by 
  several 
  thousand 
  persons. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  mounting 
  of 
  the 
  skeleton, 
  the 
  surveys, 
  etc., 
  

   there 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  six 
  casts 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  jaw, 
  which, 
  from 
  the 
  

   peculiarity 
  of 
  the 
  dentition, 
  will 
  be 
  an 
  object 
  of 
  interest 
  for 
  

   exchange 
  with 
  other 
  museums. 
  These 
  have 
  been 
  carefully 
  painted 
  

   to 
  imitate 
  the 
  color 
  and 
  expression 
  of 
  the 
  natural 
  one. 
  

  

  The 
  accessions 
  to 
  the 
  museum 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  have 
  been 
  

   very 
  large. 
  

  

  The 
  recommendation 
  of 
  the 
  Eegents 
  at 
  their 
  last 
  annual 
  meeting, 
  

   that 
  the 
  Legislature 
  appropriate 
  money 
  to 
  purchase 
  the 
  Gould 
  

   Collection 
  of 
  shells, 
  was 
  very 
  promptly 
  responded 
  to 
  by 
  that 
  body, 
  

   and 
  in 
  February 
  the 
  sum 
  of 
  $6,000 
  was 
  appropriated 
  to 
  this 
  object, 
  

   and 
  the 
  agreement 
  for 
  the 
  purchase 
  at 
  once 
  concluded. 
  The 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  was 
  delivered 
  at 
  the 
  Geological 
  Eooms 
  in 
  April 
  and 
  the 
  

   money 
  paid 
  to 
  the 
  administratrix 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Gould's 
  estate. 
  

  

  The 
  Kellogg 
  Collection 
  of 
  Ckinoidea. 
  

  

  In 
  April 
  last, 
  the 
  Regents 
  purchased 
  of 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  M. 
  Kellogg, 
  

   for 
  the 
  sum 
  of 
  eight 
  hundred 
  dollars, 
  a 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  Crinoi- 
  

   dea 
  from 
  rocks 
  of 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  the 
  Lower 
  Carboniferous 
  forma- 
  

   tions. 
  This 
  collection 
  remains 
  in 
  drawers 
  (properly 
  indicated), 
  

   beneath 
  the 
  geological 
  table 
  cases, 
  on 
  the 
  second 
  floor 
  of 
  the 
  

   building. 
  For 
  the 
  proper 
  display 
  of 
  this 
  collection, 
  we 
  need 
  at 
  

   least 
  one 
  table 
  case 
  of 
  twelve 
  feet 
  long 
  by 
  two 
  feet 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  

   wide 
  — 
  equal 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  those 
  now 
  occupied 
  by 
  the 
  fossils 
  of 
  New 
  

   York 
  — 
  still 
  leaving 
  many 
  duplicates 
  in 
  the 
  drawers. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  autumn, 
  the 
  committee 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  author- 
  

   ized 
  the 
  making 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Crinoidea 
  and 
  other 
  fossils 
  from 
  

   Crawfordsville, 
  Indiana. 
  The 
  collection 
  thus 
  made 
  is 
  an 
  extensive 
  

   one, 
  filling 
  thirteen 
  boxes, 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  of 
  crinoi- 
  

   dal 
  remains. 
  Among 
  the 
  remainder 
  are 
  some 
  very 
  fine 
  Bryozoans; 
  

   Brachiopoda 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  Spirifera, 
  Streptorhynchus, 
  Productus 
  

   and 
  Lingula 
  ; 
  Lamellibranchiata 
  of 
  several 
  genera 
  j 
  Gastero- 
  

   poda 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Platyceras; 
  some 
  Cephalopoda 
  and 
  Ptero- 
  

  

  