New York State Museum 



REPORT 



OF THE 



STATE PALEONTOLOGIST 1900 



To the Regents of tJie University of the State of Neiv York 



I have the honor to report herewith the operations of this 

 •department during the year commencing Oct. 1, 1899. 



Work of the old department 



At the time of the reorganization of the departments of the 

 museum in December 1898, and the erection by your board of this 

 department as distinct from that of the state geologist, there was 

 outstanding a considerable amount of uncompleted work which 

 pertained to the administration of the late Prof. James Hall as 

 state geologist and paleontologist. With the finishing of this 

 work and its publication the present state paleontologist was then 

 charged. In my last report I noted the completion of some of the 

 reports at that time under way. At the opening of this year the 

 following publications were still pending in various degrees of 

 progress:. 



Memoir on the paleozoic reticulate sponges 



The 16th annual report of the state geologist and paleontologist 



The 17th annual report of the state geologist and paleontologist 



Bulletin on petroleum and natural gas in Xew York 



Memoir on the genera of the paleozoic corals. 



Of the foregoing works I am able to report that the memoir 

 on the fossil reticulate sponges (3.51 pages, TO quarto plates) was 

 delivered and distributed in the month of October 1S99. The 

 16th report of the old department was received and distributed 

 in April 19O0. This report covered 151 pages and contained 

 the following contributions: Report on the boundary between 

 Potsdam and pre-Cambrian rocks north of the Adirondack^, by 



