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two cases of 144 drawers each and in several series of table drawers. 

 In each instance a single key locks or unlocks all the drawers 

 simultaneously. 



During the month of October, Dr. Hall, with the assistance of 

 C. Yan Deloo and Martin Sheehy, explored the Chemung rocks of 

 Steuben county, especially for fossil dictyospongidae, and there 

 have been brought in from the towns of Bath, Avoca and Wallace, 

 several hundred nearly perfect specimens, and altogether the most 

 extensive collection ever made of these heretofore comparatively 

 rare fossils. 



Mr. Geo. B. Simpson, who is partially occupied upon museum 

 work, has been engaged upon the corals and bryozoa, separating, 

 cleaning and describing the species from the large collections which 

 have been brought into the museum from field collections and other 

 sources. 



These collections, when finally arranged, will form an interesting 

 and important feature of the museum collections. 



Mr. John Grebhard, special assistant and guide to the museum 

 has been regularly in attendance upon his duties, and his exposition 

 of the museum collections and his instructive explanations are very 

 acceptable to inquiring visitors. 



During the year 1886, collections of rocks and fossils were dis- 

 tributed to the Potsdam Normal School and to the Brockport 

 Normal School. These collections included those made up in 

 1875-76, as well|as the lamellibranchiata of the distribution of 1886. 



To the following institutions I have sent collections of the fossil 1 

 lamellibranchiata of the distribution of 1886, as supplementary to the 

 general collections of 1875 and 1876 sent to the same institutions: 



Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y. 



State Normal and Training School, Oswego, N. Y. 



State Normal and Training School, Buffalo, N. Y. 



State Normal and Training School, Geneseo, N. Y. 



State Normal and Training School, Fredonia, N. Y. 



State Normal and Training School, Cortland, N. Y. 



The Albion Academy and High School, Albion, N. Y. 



