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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  partment. 
  In 
  1865 
  Col. 
  Jewett 
  resigned 
  and 
  was 
  succeeded 
  by 
  

   James 
  Hall. 
  

  

  The 
  discovery 
  of 
  the 
  mastodon 
  skeleton 
  at 
  Oohoes, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Slimmer 
  of 
  1866, 
  and 
  its 
  acquisition 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet, 
  attracted 
  

   much 
  attention 
  toward 
  the 
  institution. 
  At 
  the 
  nexrt 
  legislature 
  

   successful 
  application 
  was 
  made 
  for 
  |5,000 
  to 
  purchase 
  the 
  Gould 
  

   collection 
  of 
  shells 
  and 
  this 
  accession 
  of 
  60,000 
  specimens 
  repre- 
  

   senting 
  6,000 
  species 
  was 
  generally 
  appreciated. 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  capitol 
  commissioners, 
  wishing 
  information 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  

   sources 
  of 
  building 
  material, 
  engaged 
  the 
  curator 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   Cabinet 
  to 
  make 
  a 
  reconnaissance 
  which 
  resulted 
  in 
  a 
  report 
  to 
  

   the 
  commisisioners, 
  and 
  the 
  acquisition 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet, 
  by 
  

   this 
  and 
  other 
  means, 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  marbles, 
  limestones, 
  

   sandstones 
  and 
  granites 
  which 
  are 
  now 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  

   which 
  occupies 
  two 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  entrance 
  hall 
  of 
  the 
  museum. 
  

  

  At 
  first 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  received 
  no 
  regular 
  or 
  fixed 
  appro- 
  

   priation 
  of 
  money 
  from 
  the 
  legislature, 
  but 
  in 
  1870 
  a 
  law 
  was 
  

   passed 
  organizing 
  the 
  same, 
  under 
  the 
  designation 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  and 
  appropriating 
  $10,000 
  annually 
  

   to 
  provide 
  for 
  the 
  salaries 
  of 
  the 
  director 
  and 
  three 
  assistants, 
  

   together 
  with 
  the 
  expenses 
  of 
  increase 
  and 
  preservation 
  of 
  the 
  

   collections. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  this, 
  a 
  sum 
  was 
  annually 
  appropri- 
  

   ated 
  for 
  the 
  salary 
  of 
  a 
  botanist, 
  and 
  special 
  appropriations 
  have 
  

   been 
  made 
  from 
  time 
  to 
  time. 
  

  

  In 
  1881 
  a 
  state 
  entomologist 
  was 
  appointed 
  and 
  in 
  1883 
  was 
  

   made 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  staff. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  appropriation 
  of 
  |12,000 
  is 
  quite 
  inadequate 
  to 
  the 
  

   requirements 
  of 
  such 
  a 
  museum, 
  but 
  a 
  visible 
  and 
  substantial 
  

   progress 
  is 
  made 
  in 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  departments, 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  

   increasing 
  order 
  and 
  the 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  collections, 
  as 
  recorded 
  

   in 
  the 
  annual 
  museum 
  reports. 
  

  

  In 
  1889 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  was 
  made 
  an 
  integral 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  In 
  1894 
  the 
  present 
  

   director 
  was 
  appointed. 
  Most 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  remains 
  on 
  

   the 
  four 
  floors 
  of 
  Geological 
  hall 
  on 
  State 
  street, 
  at 
  the 
  

   corner 
  of 
  Lodge. 
  Here 
  are 
  the 
  collections 
  in 
  mineralogy, 
  geol- 
  

   ogy, 
  palaeontology, 
  zoology 
  and 
  ethnology 
  and 
  the 
  offices 
  of 
  the 
  

   director 
  and 
  his 
  assistants. 
  The 
  state 
  geologist 
  and 
  palaeontolo* 
  

  

  