REPORT. 



To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York: 



The Eegents of the University, as Trustees of the State 

 of Natural History,, respectfully submit this their 



NINETEENTH ANNUAL EEPOET. ^ 



On the first day of November last. Col. Ezekiel Jewett resicrned^ 

 the Curatorship of the State Cabinet, and at the anniiM] i>i< rfincr- 

 of the Board, on the eleventh of January last, Profe.-- s 



Hall was appointed to that office. Col. Jewett had di&^har<rfd 

 his duties with faithfulness and ability, and carries with bin 

 his retirement the best wishes of the Board. The appoin i 

 Prof. Hall seemed eminently proper, both on account of his con- 

 ceded competency and scientific reputation, and the deep ititerest 

 which he has taken in plans for enlarging the Cabinet and jflacing 

 it in the condition requii^d by the present advanced stat^ of C^^^' 



logical science. He has entered on his duties with his tjfiaractei 



zeal, and the Regents have no doubt that before the rloxc of the 

 year, the result of his labors will be seen in a generally improved 

 condition of every department of the Cabinet. Should the plmis 

 for enlarging and improving the Cabinet, communicated by the 

 Eegents to the Legislature on the eighth of February last, iib re- 

 sponse to the resolutions of April twenty-fourth, eighteen huadred 

 and sixty-five, be adopted, their execution will, to a great extent, 

 necessarily be committed to Professor Hall, and will ' be ispeoial^y 

 due to him as their author. -' ^' 



' A list of the additions made to the Cabinet dm hKr th<^ y<^^r 

 eighteen hundred and sixty -five, is hereto annexed.. 



A full collection of the rocks and minerals of the State» Biiit. 

 for economic purposes, would be of great value in determining the 

 materials proper to be employed in the construction^ of the pi*o- 

 posed new Capitol. It would be a public calamity if, in a struct- 

 ure erected for ages to come, a single stone of a destructible da- 

 lure should be used. This can only be avoided by a thorough 



