REPORT OP THE STATE PALEONTOLOGIST 1900 23 



the work. Students are not attracted to the state collections as 

 they should and might be; for the fact is generally known that 

 these are either badly displayed in a gloomy room, where 

 the fossils can be examined only under unfavorable conditions, or 

 altogether out of sight in drawers and boxes. To a state which 

 has done so much and possesses so much in paleontology this is 

 not a creditable condition, nor is it in any sense just to the many 

 students both in and out of the state who are taking an increased 

 interest in this science. 



Personnel of office staff. The staff in the work of the office re- 

 mains essentially as heretofore. 



Rudolf Ruedemann, assistant imleontologist 



George B. Simpson, draftsman 



Philip Ast, lithographer 



Jacob Van Deloo, clerk and stenographer 



Martin Sheehy, machinist and general helper 



Horatio Mattimore,^ page and preparator 



Cooperative icork of the department 



Cooperation with the IT. S. geological survey. Reference has been 

 made to the fact that, with the aid of the last legislature, a co- 

 operative plan of work for the survey of the Olean and Salamanca 

 quadrangles has been carried into execution. This method of 

 work will secure to our geologic map on the topographic base 

 accurate results in a more rapid manner than we could hope 

 to acquire them alone, and I am pleased to believe that w^e 

 shall be able to avail ourselves of similar cooperation in the 

 future. 



Topographic survey. By the favor of the state engineer and sur- 

 veyor the topographic survey has in part been directed toward 

 the completion of certain quadrangles in central western New 

 York, the Phelps, Canandaigua, Penn Yan and Naples sheets. 

 As soon as these are available for use we shall have the geologic 

 data ready for their coloration with little additional field 

 work. These sheets taken together will largely cover the area 



1 FoT p;irt of the year. 



