﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  CURATOR. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  

   York: 
  

  

  Gentlemen 
  — 
  I 
  have 
  the 
  honor 
  to 
  present 
  to 
  you, 
  the 
  following 
  

   communication 
  regarding 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  

   with 
  a 
  statement 
  of 
  work 
  clone 
  in 
  the 
  museum 
  and 
  in 
  connexion 
  

   therewith, 
  together 
  with 
  the 
  additions 
  which 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  

   the 
  collections 
  in 
  the 
  several 
  departments 
  since 
  my 
  last 
  annual 
  

   report. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  weeks 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  were 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  preservation 
  

   and 
  arrangement 
  of 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  Cohoes 
  Mastodon, 
  presented 
  

   to 
  the 
  museum 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Alfred 
  Wild, 
  in 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  

   Harmony 
  Mills 
  Company 
  ; 
  and 
  some 
  time 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  

   superintendence 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  excavation 
  for 
  other 
  bones 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  animal. 
  After 
  the 
  work 
  at 
  the 
  original 
  

   point 
  was 
  abandoned, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  freezing 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  

   some 
  excavations 
  upon 
  the 
  southwest 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Mill 
  revealed 
  

   the 
  presence 
  of 
  bones, 
  which 
  proved 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  skele- 
  

   ton, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  26th 
  of 
  February 
  and 
  7th 
  of 
  March, 
  we 
  obtained 
  

   at 
  this 
  locality, 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  the 
  right 
  fore-leg 
  below 
  

   the 
  humerus. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  place, 
  we 
  also 
  obtained 
  two 
  bones 
  be- 
  

   longing 
  to 
  the 
  right 
  hind-foot. 
  The 
  position 
  in 
  which 
  these 
  bones 
  

   were 
  discovered, 
  was 
  at 
  least 
  sixty 
  feet 
  distant 
  from 
  the 
  point 
  

   where 
  the 
  skull 
  and 
  principal 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  skeleton 
  were 
  found, 
  

   and 
  at 
  a 
  level 
  twenty-five 
  feet 
  higher. 
  The 
  bones 
  thus 
  obtained 
  

   were 
  of 
  great 
  use 
  in 
  the 
  final 
  work 
  of 
  mounting 
  the 
  skeleton. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  general 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  I 
  have 
  commenced, 
  and 
  to 
  

   [Senate 
  No. 
  92.] 
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