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From Hon. James Shanahan, State Superintendent of Public 

 Works : 



Limestone, Onondaga, large block of, from Union Springs 

 quarry, Cayuga county. 



From Haskell, of New York city : 



Specimens of rock drillings (eighteen), representing material 

 passed through at twenty-foot intervals, from 660 to 

 1,000 feet in depth, at well sunk in Amsdell's brewery 

 yard, Albany, N. Y., 1886. 



From Edward I. Devlin, of Regent's office : 



Mud from depth of 4,529 fathoms, 150 miles north of 

 St. Thomas, West Indies, from soundings by U. S. Steamer 

 "Enterprise," March 6, 1886. 



From J. N. Atwood, secretary of the Ausable Granite Company : 

 A block of granite, dressed and polished on two faces, 

 16x7-Jx4£ inches, from the quarries of the Ausable 

 Granite Company, at Keeseville. 



From Daniel T. Smith, of Nyack : 



A block of red sandstone, from quarry at Nyack. 



From George F. Kunz, Hoboken, N. J. : 



Chrysocolla and Malachite from Arizona. 

 Rhodocrosite from Arizona. 



From M Foshay, Brewsters, Putnam county. 



Apophyllite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, near Brewsters. 



From Robert Whitaker, Weavertown, Warren county. 



Specimens of garnet and white quartz from near Weavertown. 



By Purchase, 



From L. Stadtmiiller, of New Haven : 



One collection, consisting of seventy specimens, illustrating 

 typical rocks described in Dana's text book of geology. 



From Mr. Charles E. Hall of the second geological survey of 

 Pennsylvania : 



One collection of Pennsylvania rocks, consisting of 576 

 specimens from the crystalline-rock district of the south- 

 eastern part of the State and the adjacent, sedimentary 

 formations, in Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester counties. 



