CONTENTS 



VOLUME 1 



Report of the director and state geologist 1900 



PAGF. 



Geology r7 



Pre-Oambrian and crystalline rocks r7 



Quaternary formations rll 



Economic geology rl4 



Geologic map r22 



Recent geologic Avork in Franklin and St LaAvrence count ies. 



H. P. Gushing r23 



Preliminary rei>ort of field work in the town of Minerva, Essex 



CO. George I. Finlay r96 



Pleistocene geology of "western New York, report of progress 



for 1900. H. L. Fairchild rl03 



The quarry industry in southeastern New York. Edwin C. 



Eckel rl41 



Recent developments in the gypsum industry in New York state. 



Arthur L. Parsons rl77 



Paleontology rl84 



Mineralogy : rl88 



General zoology rlS9 



Entomology ; rl96 



Botany rl98 



Ethnology rl9S 



Pan-American exposition '. rl99 



Repairs and alterations of Geological hall rJl)9 



Attendance at the museum r200 



Accessions to collections in Geological hall rllOl 



Two new^ land isopods. James II. vSt oiler r20S 



Notes on the marine fishes of Long Island and a biologic reconnais- 

 sance of Cold Spring Harbor, George G. Scott r211 



Iroquois silver brooches. Harriet Maxwell Converse r227 



Index r255 



Appendix 1 



Report of the state paleontologist 1900 3 



Report of the state botanist 1900 130 



