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CONTENTS 



VOL. 1 PAGE 



Report of the director r5 



Geology and paleontology r5 



EcoDomic geology r7 



Mineralogy r8 



Indian museum „ r9 



General zoology rl2 



Entomology rl3 



Botany •- rl4 



Photography rl5 



Physiography rl6 



Publications issued during 1898 rl6 



Office work rl6 



Attendance at the museum.. rl7 



Accessions to the collections io Geological hall rl8 



Historic geology rl8 



Paleontology r21 



Economic geology r22 



Mineralogy r24 



Relics r24 



Relief maps r25 



Zoology r26 



Report of work on the coUeetious of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils iu 



Geological hall by Rufus M. B;igg Ph.D r32 



A fossil plant from Orange co. by J. N. Nevins r79 



The Sacandnga mining and milling co. and the "Sutphen process" by J. N. 



Nevius r82 



Notes on a trip from Port Jervis to Rondout by Heinrich Ries Ph.D r88 



Report on the fishes of Long Island collected in the summer of 1898 by 



Tarleton H. Bean Ph.D r92 



Report of state botanist {sec Bulletin 25) 615 



Report of state entomologist (see Bulletin 23) 149 



Appendix: Museum bulletins 20-25 



20 Elm leaf beetle in New York. 1 



21 Geology of the Lake Placid region 47 



22 Earthenware of the New York aborigines 71 



23 14th report of the state entomologist 1898 149 



24 Memorial of the life and eutomologic work of J. A. Liutner 297 



25 Report of the state botanist 1898 615 



Index 691 



VOL. 2 



Report of the state geologist and paleontologist 1 



