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From the High Rock Spring Co., Saratoga-springs. 

 Specimens of Calcareous Tufa, cut from the lower side of the High 

 Rock on its removal : also, specimen from a pine tree found seven 

 feet below the base of the High Rock, and a piece of oak from a 

 depth of seventeen feet below. 



From Mr. PRESTON, Siip't of Edwards Mine, Canaan, N. Y. 

 A specimen of Silver-lead-ore, from the mine. 



From JOEL TIFFANY, Albany. 

 Specimens of Clay and Pebbles (drift earth), from the Lake Tunnel at 

 Chicago, 111., 1866. 



From the N. Y. State Agricultural Society 

 (ThroughCol.B. P. JOHN SON, Albany). 

 Forty-four specimens from different Geological Formations, and eight 

 specimens of Clays from different parts of the State. 



From the Moriah Mining Company 

 ( Through MARCUS T. SMITH, Moriah) . 

 A specimen of Magnetic Iron Ore, one foot long by nine inches wide 

 and high. 



From HERBERT JITDD, Franklin, Delaware county. 

 Specimens of Calcareous Sandstone, with remains of fossil fishes, 

 from the Chemung group at Franklin. 



From Mrs. LEDYARD LINCKLAEN, Cazenovia 

 .(Through Hon. HORATIO SEYMOUR). 

 A valuable collection of Fossils, formerly deposited in the State Cabinet 

 by the late Ledyard Lincklaen of Cazenovia. 



From B. and J. CARPENTER, Lockport. 

 A block of Niagara Limestone, of one cubic foot, finely dressed, one 

 face showing rock fracture ; from Lockport. 



From J. L. and A. RANDALL, Albany. 

 Two blocks of Magnetic Iron Ore, from French Mountain, near Lake 

 George. 



From Mr. KNAPP, . 



Two specimens of Roofing Slate, from the U. S. Roofing Slate quarries, 

 Washington county. 



From H. R. and Z. J. BROWN, Schoharie. 

 A polished specimen of Black Marble two feet four inches long, with a 

 base of the same stone dressed as an ordinary building stone, with 

 one face showing rock fracture ; from Schoharie. 



From SHERMAN, WETHERBEE & Co., Port Henry. 

 A large block of Magnetic Iron Ore from the new bed in Moriah, and 

 two large and several small specimens of Iron Ore from the old bed 

 in Moriah, Essex county. 



From JACOB GOEWAY, Albany. 

 A Piece op Wood found with the remains of the Mastodon at Cohoes. 



From the Harmony Mills Company, Cohoea 

 (Through ALFRED WILD, Albany). 

 Bones of a Mastodon, found at Cohoes in September and November, 

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