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completed an arrangement by which the museum will be supplied 

 with a large collection of these crystals. 



Mr. James W. Hall, one of the assistants in the museum, has also 

 visited, under the direction of Professor Hall, a locality where 

 dictyospongidse have been found. He not only found the speci- 

 mens in this locality, but also in another, which had not before 

 been suspected. These localities are notable within the bounds of 

 this State, and ev^en of the United States, where specimens of this 

 kind have been found. 



The trustees desire, in connection with the additions made to the 

 museum, to report to you the large and important collection of 

 minerals which were purchased from Mr. George F. Kunz. 

 Mr. Kunz is a mineralogist in the employ of Tiffany & Co. in 

 New York, and in the regular pursuit of his occupation he had 

 made a very unusual collection of minerals and gems. This col- 

 lection the trustees of the museum, after a very careful inspection 

 by Professor Smock and Mr. Beecher, decided to purchase for 

 $4,000. This has been accomplished and the collection has been 

 delivered, and is now being prepared for a proper display in the 

 rooms of the museum. 



The trustees also desire to report to you a collection of mollusca 

 which has been presented to the museum by Mr. Beecher. They 

 consist of about 15,000 specimens of land and fresh water shells and 

 are of great interest and value. They occupy seventy-five drawer 8 

 of twenty by twenty-four inches. The additions to the museum 

 should also include a collection of Eurypterus purchased by 

 Professor Hall from Ward & Howell of Rochester. They com- 

 prise about 100 specimens and cost $125 ; also a collection of corals 

 purchased from Mr. Woodman of New York containing about 177 

 specimens and costing $1,000. 



The work that has been conducted in the museum will be found 

 very fully described in the reports which are herewith appended. 

 The report of Director Hall, of the State Botanist and the 

 State Entomologist Lintner and the other reports, will be found 

 full of interest. 



The trustees report the following as constituting the museum 

 staff at the present time : James Hall, LL. D., Director and State 

 Geologist; J. A. Lintner, Ph. D., State Entomologist; Charles H. 

 Peck, State Botanist ; Professor John C. Smock, assistant in 



