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and collection. Many are of great importance to our work, 

 among them being a considerable adldition to the series of type 

 specimens. The total accessions for the year are 12,951. 



MINEKALOGY 



In Jnly Mr Arthur L. Parsons, a graduate of New York univer- 

 eity, was appointed temporary assistant to' arrange the collec- 

 tions of minerals in the museum. Since that time the general 

 collection of minerals on the first floor has been cleaned and 

 rearranged, some of the poorer specimens being removed from 

 the exhibition cases and stored so as to give room to display 

 better material. 



The De Witt Clinton collection donated to the state museum 

 in 1891 b}' the Albany institute, which was stored on the fifth 

 floor of the capitol, was unpacked and the best specimens incor- 

 porated with the general museum collections. 



The collection of Bergen hill minerals has been placed in two 

 wall cases in the front room of the mineral department. 



The gem collection has been cleaned and rearranged. 



The economic collections of salt, garnet, graphite and talc on 

 the third floor were also cleaned and rearranged. 



The Stevenson collection of oils, together with most of the 

 hydrocarbons, has been removed from the cases on the first floor 

 and is now exhibited on the third floor of the museum, along with 

 the economic minerals of New York state. 



A new collection of ores and minerals, arranged according to 

 the metallic radicle, now occupies the two table cases formerly 

 occupied by the collections of minerals from Manhattan Island 

 and Westchester county, and the collection of small specimens 

 belonging to the general collection. About a quarter of one of 

 these cases is devoted to a local collection of calcites showing 

 unusual crystalline form, secured by Dr John M. Clarke from the 

 gypsum quarries at Union Springs. 



A collection of minerals used for ornauiental purposes has 

 been started, and together with a collection of crvstals and 



