70 Forty- SIXTH Report on the 



Chemung Group. Boxes. 



Brachiopoda 8 



Plant remains 7 



Fucoids 1 



Fisli remains 1 



Slabs 2 



Corals 1 



Dictyospongidse and Brachiopoda 1 



Bryozoa 1 



Geological section 1 



Rubbish and miscellaneous material 2 



CatsMll Group. 



Section near Lawrenceville, Pa 1 



MiscellaneotiS. 



Oneonta sandstone. Plants 1 



Albany clays with foot markings and trails 1 



Total Number of Boxes. 



Boxes, 



Room 1, basement of State Hall 170 



Room 10, basement of State Hall 143 



Room 31, upper floor of State Hall 34 



Room 33, upper floor of State Hall 13 



Room 35, upper floor of State Hall 4 



Room 37, upper floor of State Hall ' 31 



Rotunda, upper floor of State Hall 38 



Top of cases, south end of hall, upper floor 53 



Total 486 



During the time I had the management of the Museum, we 

 established machinery for cutting and polishing specimens and 

 for cutting thin slices of rock and fossils for the purpose of 

 microscopic study. While a considerable number of the cuttings 

 were of other objects, much the larger proportion were of Fossil 

 Corals, which were made for the purpose of minute or micro- 

 scopic study. Of these sections there were over 3,000 specimens 

 recorded (See 37th Museum Report). These specimens have not 

 been in my charge or control for many years, but as they consti- 

 tute an important part of the collection in Palaeontology, they 

 have now come under my direction. On examining these speci- 



