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the geological maps of the State and parts thereof, and also for 

 showing the various certificates, diplomas and medals of award 

 that have been received by the Museum at the A^arious national 

 and international expositions. 



During the past year the heroic statue of Professor Joseph 

 Henry, which had been for some years standing in the rotunda of 

 the Capitol, and which was modeled by the sculptor John Flanagan 

 for use at the St Louis Exposition, has been removed to the 

 Museum halls, its broken condition repaired, the surface suitably 

 bronzed, and the statue placed in a commanding position in the 

 rotunda. Alongside of it is attached a frame carrying parts of 

 simple electrical instruments devised and used by Professor Henry 

 for his fundamental experiments on electrical transmission and 

 induction, made while he was a teacher of mathematics in the 

 Albany Academy in the years 1827-32. 



With the present tremendous development of electrical science 

 and its application to a great diversity of human comforts, Pro- 

 fessor Henry's fundamental work is just coining into the fulness 

 of its recognition. As he was a native of the Albany district, a 

 resident of this city for most of his younger years, and a teacher 

 in one of the Albany schools, it has seemed very proper that 

 measures be taken for a memorial here to the service he rendered 

 to humanity. A campaign has therefore been undertaken for the 

 purpose of raising funds to put this fine model of Henry into 

 bronze. This canvass has been reasonably successful and the 

 amount raised, it is believed, will be, with the cooperation that 

 has been promised, sufficient to erect this memorial, which is to be 

 placed in the city park well in front of the venerable Albany 

 Academy building, permission for this having already been granted 

 by the city council. 



In Lincoln Park, one of the municipal parks of Albany, stands 

 a low, red brick building which was built by James Hall, the late 

 State Geologist and Paleontologist, about the year 1856, and which 

 from that time until his death in 1898, served as the laboratory 

 where his geological investigations were carried on, and where 

 were kept the great collections of geological material belonging to 

 himself and to the State. At the time it was built, Professor Hall 

 had no other official headquarters. He had chosen a place well 

 outside of the settled part of the city, and lived in comparative 

 isolation, surrounded by his scientific materials and his scientific 

 assistants. From 1856 to 1886 all the work of the Geological 



