Report of the Assistant Palaeontologist. 



Albany, December 1, 1892. 

 James Hall, LL. D., State Geologist: 



Sir. — During the past year my time has been largely devoted 

 to the investigations and other work connected with the prepara- 

 tion of the Palaeontology of New York, volume YIII, parts 1 and 

 2, and with the printing of the first of these parts. Your own 

 report contains a detailed statement of what has been accom- 

 plished in this direction. It is proper that I should add to the 

 account there given that this work, which involves much labori- 

 ous and painstaking preparation of specimens to be studied, has 

 contributed directly and largely to the quality of our Museum 

 collections, by bringing into a condition suitable for exhibition or 

 for the studied reserve of the collection, a great number of this 

 abundantly represented group of fossil animals, the Brachio]3oda. 

 No attempt has been made during the year to inaugurate any 

 changes in, or make any considerable addition to the exhibition 

 collection in the Geological Hall. All additions to this depart- 

 ment are received at the State Hall, where they are studied and, 

 if space permits, placed in drawers; otherwise they are repacked 

 in boxes and stored. 



The collection of Lower Silurian fossils purchased in 1890 of 

 the late William P. Eust, of Trenton Falls, has been removed 

 from the drawers which it occupied on the Palaeozoic floor of the 

 Geological Hall, and been incorporated with the serial collection 

 of New York fossils in the State Hall, where it has become 

 accessible for study. 



Since the completion of the original drawings for the eighth 

 volume of the Palaeontology of New York, Mr. Ebenezer 

 Emmons, who had been engaged in that work, has been occupied 



