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200 drawings, which appears as bulletin 16 of the state museum, 

 and also an illustrated monograph, Polished stone articles 'used hy 

 the New Yorh aborigines^ which was published as museum bulletin 

 18. These two bulletins are bound with the 51st report of the 

 state museum. In addition to these, Dr Beauchamp has prepared 

 a most valuable illustrated bulletin. Earthenware of the New Yorh 

 aborigines. This is 22 of the museum series, and is bound with 

 the present report. 



Dr Beauchamp has also given valuable assistance in other direc- 

 tions, and it is hoped that future appropriations will be sufficiently 

 large to enable him to give all of his time to state work, as he has 

 it well in hand, is an authority on IS'ew York archeology and takes 

 great interest in the future of the collection. 



The collections in ethnology are so extensive that it is not prac- 

 ticable to give a catalogue of them in the present report. It is 

 proposed to issue this as a bulletin when ready for publication. 



General zoology 



In connection with the collections in Geological hall, a larg€ 

 amount of work has been accomplished during the past season. 



Prominent in this regard is the collection of fishes from the 

 waters of Long Island made by Dr Tarleton H. Bean for the state 

 museum during the summer and autumn of 1898. In this work 84: 

 species were collected, many of them being previously not recorded 

 within our limits. An article describing this work in detail is pub- 

 lished in the present report. 



By special arrangement with Gerrit S. Aliller jr, of the United 

 States national museum, an annotated catalogue of the mammals of 

 New York has been prepared, which is published as bulletin 29 of 

 the state museum. This will be followed by a Key to the land 

 mammals of northeastern North America. 



In continuation of the study of the unionidae taken up a few 

 years ago by William B. Marshall, of which some results were pub- 

 lished in bulletins 1 and 9 of the state museum, the attempt was 

 made to secure a collection of embryonic unios. For this purpose 

 frequent visits were made by Mr J. N. Nevius during 12 months to 

 the Hudson river, a short distance below Albany, in order to secure 

 specimens of unios in which the eggs were developing. A brief 

 note on this work is given in the following pages. 



